I'm off to Mexico City for the weekend to attend the eighth annual conference of the Media Ecology Association. I've been invited to present a paper based on my book, Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland : Why the Irish Speak English. The book has been nominated for a number of awards, and I'm feeling pretty good about its chances.
If you're interested, Friday evening at 7:00 pm (CDT -- 1:00 am Saturday Greenwich mean time) there is an awards ceremony being webcast from the conference (actually, the entire conference has been webcast). You can find it by clicking this link. You'll need Windows Media Player to view the webcast.
Well, even if my book doesn't win anything, I'll be there. But, as I said, I'm feeling pretty confident about its chances. So tune in and see if I get to make an acceptance speech.
And I'll be back Monday with a full report.
Dr. Fallon
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if you do or dont win, congratulations on the book and its success
am very happy for you :) *hug*
The book sounds fascinating, for, your book is winning many awards for raising a question one might not likely have thought of. Since Ireland and England are so close, it would seem natural that they would share the language. Evidently, not!
How awesome to be an award winning author! Congratulations!
"An Overview of Media Ecology (Lance Strate)
It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and
techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a
leading role in human affairs.
Media ecology is the Toronto School, and the New York School. It is
technological determinism, hard and soft, and technological evolution.
It is media logic, medium theory, mediology.
It is McLuhan Studies, orality–literacy studies, American cultural
studies. It is grammar and rhetoric, semiotics and systems theory, the
history and the philosophy of technology.
It is the postindustrial and the postmodern, and the preliterate and prehistoric.
—Lance Strate, “Understanding MEA,” In Medias Res 1 (1), Fall 1999. "
I know I'm blonde. But I can honestly say, that I still haven't the foggiest????? Can you enlighten me.. gently... please
Oh and congratulations on your book. Interesting topic. Hope the webcast goes well.
And way to go Doc! I'm very happy for you. Being of Irish decent, I would be very interested to read your book. I only speak enough celtic to get my mouth washed out with soap, but it's a start.
I tried to watch the link, but seeing as I have real computer (mac) and the evil monopoly nazi (bill gates) has made it difficult for us to use anything but his spawn product, I was unable to see it. Sorry for missing it, and again Way to go! Even being nominated is awesome and I am very proud.
thanks from kada
So what have you published that makes you such an expert on what is good content? Something that has won an award, or even been nominated? Nothing? Perhaps that is why you sound like a sour grapes factory.
Have you even read the Doc's book. How do you know it is not a valuable contribution? It might not be a point of interest for you, but that doesn't mean that it is not well done, and is there for, how did you put it? "If you win any awards, it will be a grave injustice to real authors in the world." Yah, real constructive and mature.
Being happy for people when they are honored is not something that most people scoff at. You could use a lesson in tact and manners, and you should be very insulted seeing as that bit of advise is coming from me. I have very little tact, but at least I try to be open minded and constructive.
And as far as telling you to "stuff it" you had that coming and still do. What have you got against the Doc anyway? Are you so in need of attention, that you have to assume that people who think along different lines than you are therefore targets for your spite. What do you get out of this kind of thing. Sit at your keyboard and feel superior? The rest of us are lemmings to you and you are the only one with the big picture, sitting there casting us crumbs of your wisdom because we are too unintelligent to form opinions of our own? We are fooled by "fake science" and victims of "psychological brainwashing" because you say so.
Some how I don't think so, and it's time to pull the stick out. You can degrade me online, and say what you like, but as far as I am concerned, you deserve my pity. I am happy when others accomplish something important and proud of them. I don't belittle their accomplishments because I don't agree with, or understand their interest.
You think I have verbal diarrhea and seem to think I am not worthy of respect because I think differently than you do. I'm not a woman that cares. Is it possible for you to make your points with out being waspish right out of the gate? It comes down to simple respect. You don't have to agree, but you also don't have to be a jerk. Or maybe you do. Where in, you deserve my pity, but not my respect.
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)