Media Ecology !MediaEcology@lemm.ee

Neil Postman / Marshall McLuhan media ecology.

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TOPIC: Media Ecology in year 2025 is exhausting to your/our/my mind because understanding is so broken. So many people are creating chaos and flinging shit at each other from platform to platform

The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, while the term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968.

Social media now main source of news in USA, research suggests (Social Media is The Media, the Mainstream Media is Social Media)

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth—whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well adjusted,” he cannot go along with currents and trends.” - Marshall McLuhan, March 1967

"there’s nearly no doubt: Trump really believes — or at least wants people to believe — that Abrego Garcia really has MS13 tattooed on his knuckles in Calibri" typeface. Media Ecology literacy crisis

TikTok, YouTube shorts, short form video, "The end of Truth as we Know It" - Media Ecology of "The Way we Perceive Truth Itself", "Understand Anything At All"

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration