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Progressive Identity Project - #5 (Sunday, June 8, 2008)

Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 05:17:52 AM PDT

Greetings Sunday political junkies. I'm betting that anyone reading this now is tuned in to one of the many Sunday morning political roundtables, drinking coffee or tea, and looking for a little fix of the Kos. Welcome to this diary.

This is the 5th in my Masters thesis project series, and I'm hoping for a little better luck with the turnout today that I've had for my last two. After a good start in which I managed 41, 21, and 29 comments (not to mention the 66 in the intro diary), I've had a whopping 3 and 5 for the last two. Today I'm going to keep it simple. The point after the fold...

This project is about progressive identity and new media. I'm just going to ask you today to look at the following word in bold, and tell me the first word (or couple of words) that come to mind. Try not to think about it at all. Be honest. The first word that pops into your head, as strange as it might be, or as imperfect. Ready?

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Remember, this should be the first word in your head, not the one that you mull over and decide on after consideration.

That's it today. I close with a completely unrelated video, but one of my favorites:

Hope to see you back here again on Wednesday at 9am EST/6am PST for another Progressive Identity Project conversation. And, as always I leave you with a list of important contributors to the Media Ecology field...

Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, George Herbert Mead, James W. Carey, Edward T. Hall, Gregory Bateson, Paul Watzlawick, Alfred Korzybski, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Norbert Weiner, Ervin Laszlo, Niklas Luhmann, Walter Benjamin, Edmund Burke, N. Katherine Hayles, Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver, Jeremy Campbell, Wendell Johnson, Edmund Carpenter, Erving Goffman, Susanne K. Langer, Roland Barthes, Joshua Meyrowitz, Lance Strate, Paul Levinson, and many many more.  

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