Dennis D Cali
Biographic Data
| ID | 4911474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis D Cali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis D |
| FAMILY NAME | Cali |
| SIGNATURE | CALI D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Tyler |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artificial intelligence in Departments of Communication
When communication and mass media faculty returned from a kind of exile that COVID-19 had inflicted on them, they were hit almost immediately with the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI). The fall semester of 2023 seemed to usher in a new means by which students would complete assignments that left faculty scratching their heads. They faced a new form of information retrieval that students (as well as faculty) were using that, at once, yie…
The sacramental view of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and James Carey
Some scholars have suggested that the particular religious convictions of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and James Carey had little to do with their contributions to the field of media ecology. This article challenges that position and asserts that those convictions comprised the very Weltanschauung of their respective media ecologies. The article outlines five features of that view and shows how they manifest in the work of these three pioneering …
Mapping Media Ecology
Personalist survey of media studies territories
This article attempts to distinguish characteristics of various forms of media studies. Personalism is presented as a philosophical perspective that helps to draw out those distinctions and, in the process, to affirm or to recover commitments to the inviolability and to the interrelatedness of human persons
On Disciplining Media Ecology
The author undertakes research into conceptions of media ecology held by some of its leading scholars and disciplinary identity formation. Identifying media ecology as a field of study that stresses either network, nodal features or coherence of content, conceptualizing media ecology as a network seems to correspond more closely with pedagogical practice while an emphasis on primary theorists bears out in the classroom. Becher and Trowle's analys…
Journalism After September 11
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalism in the United States changed. Journalistic norms of objectivity and distance opened to a participatory mode of reporting. A communitarian journalism emerged in which journalists became "at one" with their subjects as they lived the story they were reporting. Chiara Lubich of Italy presents a philosophical foundation for this journalistic approach, proposing "unity" as the ethic tha…
On Disciplining Media Ecology
The author undertakes research into conceptions of media ecology held by some of its leading scholars and disciplinary identity formation. Identifying media ecology as a field of study that stresses either network, nodal features or coherence of content, conceptualizing media ecology as a network seems to correspond more closely with pedagogical practice while an emphasis on primary theorists bears out in the classroom. Becher and Trowle's analys…
Journalism After September 11
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalism in the United States changed. Journalistic norms of objectivity and distance opened to a participatory mode of reporting. A communitarian journalism emerged in which journalists became "at one" with their subjects as they lived the story they were reporting. Chiara Lubich of Italy presents a philosophical foundation for this journalistic approach, proposing "unity" as the ethic tha…
On Disciplining Media Ecology
The author undertakes research into conceptions of media ecology held by some of its leading scholars and disciplinary identity formation. Identifying media ecology as a field of study that stresses either network, nodal features or coherence of content, conceptualizing media ecology as a network seems to correspond more closely with pedagogical practice while an emphasis on primary theorists bears out in the classroom. Becher and Trowle's analys…
Personalist survey of media studies territories
This article attempts to distinguish characteristics of various forms of media studies. Personalism is presented as a philosophical perspective that helps to draw out those distinctions and, in the process, to affirm or to recover commitments to the inviolability and to the interrelatedness of human persons
The sacramental view of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and James Carey
Some scholars have suggested that the particular religious convictions of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and James Carey had little to do with their contributions to the field of media ecology. This article challenges that position and asserts that those convictions comprised the very Weltanschauung of their respective media ecologies. The article outlines five features of that view and shows how they manifest in the work of these three pioneering …
Mapping Media Ecology
Artificial intelligence in Departments of Communication
When communication and mass media faculty returned from a kind of exile that COVID-19 had inflicted on them, they were hit almost immediately with the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI). The fall semester of 2023 seemed to usher in a new means by which students would complete assignments that left faculty scratching their heads. They faced a new form of information retrieval that students (as well as faculty) were using that, at once, yie…
Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · Media ecology (2 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (2 works)