I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Marshall McLuhan and Tony Schwartz, which has been very enlightening. It came in handy recently, when some folks I know in the Media Ecology Association got into a tiff with some YouTube celebrities, taking issue with some overly loose use (and abuse) of terms. Thinking it through, I came up with a way of linking McLuhan’s and Schwartz’s ideas on resonant intervals with some foundational concepts of information theory. So I weighed in.
I’ve got a separate blog, Secular Progress, for expressly academic or political material. I’d normally keep the content of this one focused on the technical side of database programming for polls or tax lien analysis. But the slides and video I created seem interesting enough from an Information Science perspective that I decided to cross post.
First, the deck…
Then, the supplementary YouTube video…