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Article: Media literacy and general semantics.
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of involvement in both general semantics and media literacy, I have become convinced that the two "movements"--for lack of a better label--have so much in common that they should really get to know each other.
Don't get me wrong. Some people in both movements already know of each other. Probably the best known of those was Neil Postman, who became a legend for his media ecology program at NYU and writings about media and education. Renee Hobbs, now at Temple University, is another person well aware of the commonalities.
Don Ranly and other people at the University of Missouri have been aware of the potential ties since the days of ...