Paul Grosswiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4930347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Grosswiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Grosswiler |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSWILER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Routine Influences on Aquaculture News Selection
Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results reve…
Cussing the buzz-saw, or, the medium is the morality of Peter-Paul Verbeek
Philosopher of technology Peter-Paul Verbeek adds a new dimension to media ecology by introducing the argument that technologies are inherently moral agents and designing them is a moral enterprise whether or not it is intended to be. Verbeek’s work moves beyond the media as extension theory of media ecology to a media as composite theory in which the human and technological are inseparable. This article compares the moral aspects of media ecolog…
Old New Media
Old New Media examines how the introduction of a new medium threatens those accustomed to the old media environment. Taking a media ecology perspective to examine the historical transitions from oral to literate, print, electronic and virtual media environments, the book includes theoretical chapters and case studies in five areas: media ecology; critical media theory; freedom of expression; Eastern thought; and the body and the media environment…
The Transformation of Carey on McLuhan
During his 40 years of writing about Marshall McLuhan, James Carey’s critical engagement was transformed from initial admiration, to rejection, and then to acceptance. Carey’s dismissal of McLuhan as a technological determinist whose work was inferior to Harold Innis was particularly influential. By the late 1990s, however, Carey called this position an unproductive argument that prevented appreciation of McLuhan’s contributions. This reappraisal…
Instant Steal
Dispelling the Alphabet Effect
Canadian communication theory has accepted as one of its major tenets the superiority of Western civilization brought about by the phonetic alphabet. Challenges to the theory either have not been incorporated into the research literature or have been represented as working theories rather than conclusive evidence. This article seeks to help redress this imbalance by detailing the main claims of the alphabetic literacy arguments in the context of …
The Method is the Message
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Historical Hopes, Media Fears, and the Electronic Town Meeting Concept
Utopian thinkers since the nineteenth century have advocated or opposed different forms of direct democracy. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of experiments with teledemocracy were conducted, yielding a rich discourse on the relationship of technology to democracy. However, in the 1992 presidential campaign, the “electronic town meeting” concept was represented by selected print news media without a hint of this discourse. Instead, the idea was a…
Turf Wars”
Emerging media technologies have fostered new forms of political communication, from televised town halls to political cable channels, that may challenge journalists' role as the provider of political news. Applying occupational sociological theory, this article examines claims of journalists in news and commentary focusing on several new political communication forms that emerged, or were heavily discussed, during the 1992 presidential election …
A Q Methodology Study of Media and Ideology Orientations
This study explores the debate among communication theorists about whether dominant typographic and electronic media forms are accompanied by distinct worldviews. Using Q methodology to approach media and ideology orientations subjectively, the study suggests that electronic media are preferred within a typographic ideology. Two electronic media factors, two mixed factors, and one slightly typographic media factor emerged in the preferences of a …
A Q-methodology study of media worker attitudes toward changing roles of the media in Tanzania
Press freedom has begun to emerge in East Africa's Tanzania with private newspapers. Attitudes among journalists and other media workers are responding to these structural changes. This Q-study explores media philosophies among 50 Tanzanian media workers. The study, conducted in 1992 at the time of the initiation of the move toward multi-party democracy, suggests that four factors view the media with a mixture of socialist, traditional, revolutio…
The Dialectical Methods of Marshall McLuhan, Marxism, and Critical Theory
The purpose of this paper is to help reclaim McLuhan’s media and social / historical theories for critical theory, arguing that McLuhan employed a form of dialectical theory containing basic elements of dialectics developed by Hegel, Marx, and, later, his contemporaries of the Frankfurt School. This essay will examine McLuhan’s published writings for analysis of his dialectical methodology and compare his work closely with the work of Walter Benj…
Routine Influences on Aquaculture News Selection
Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results reve…
A Q Methodology Study of Media and Ideology Orientations
This study explores the debate among communication theorists about whether dominant typographic and electronic media forms are accompanied by distinct worldviews. Using Q methodology to approach media and ideology orientations subjectively, the study suggests that electronic media are preferred within a typographic ideology. Two electronic media factors, two mixed factors, and one slightly typographic media factor emerged in the preferences of a …
Historical Hopes, Media Fears, and the Electronic Town Meeting Concept
Utopian thinkers since the nineteenth century have advocated or opposed different forms of direct democracy. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of experiments with teledemocracy were conducted, yielding a rich discourse on the relationship of technology to democracy. However, in the 1992 presidential campaign, the “electronic town meeting” concept was represented by selected print news media without a hint of this discourse. Instead, the idea was a…
A Q-methodology study of media worker attitudes toward changing roles of the media in Tanzania
Press freedom has begun to emerge in East Africa's Tanzania with private newspapers. Attitudes among journalists and other media workers are responding to these structural changes. This Q-study explores media philosophies among 50 Tanzanian media workers. The study, conducted in 1992 at the time of the initiation of the move toward multi-party democracy, suggests that four factors view the media with a mixture of socialist, traditional, revolutio…
The Dialectical Methods of Marshall McLuhan, Marxism, and Critical Theory
The purpose of this paper is to help reclaim McLuhan’s media and social / historical theories for critical theory, arguing that McLuhan employed a form of dialectical theory containing basic elements of dialectics developed by Hegel, Marx, and, later, his contemporaries of the Frankfurt School. This essay will examine McLuhan’s published writings for analysis of his dialectical methodology and compare his work closely with the work of Walter Benj…
Turf Wars”
Emerging media technologies have fostered new forms of political communication, from televised town halls to political cable channels, that may challenge journalists' role as the provider of political news. Applying occupational sociological theory, this article examines claims of journalists in news and commentary focusing on several new political communication forms that emerged, or were heavily discussed, during the 1992 presidential election …
A Q Methodology Study of Media and Ideology Orientations
This study explores the debate among communication theorists about whether dominant typographic and electronic media forms are accompanied by distinct worldviews. Using Q methodology to approach media and ideology orientations subjectively, the study suggests that electronic media are preferred within a typographic ideology. Two electronic media factors, two mixed factors, and one slightly typographic media factor emerged in the preferences of a …
Historical Hopes, Media Fears, and the Electronic Town Meeting Concept
Utopian thinkers since the nineteenth century have advocated or opposed different forms of direct democracy. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of experiments with teledemocracy were conducted, yielding a rich discourse on the relationship of technology to democracy. However, in the 1992 presidential campaign, the “electronic town meeting” concept was represented by selected print news media without a hint of this discourse. Instead, the idea was a…
The Method is the Message
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Dispelling the Alphabet Effect
Canadian communication theory has accepted as one of its major tenets the superiority of Western civilization brought about by the phonetic alphabet. Challenges to the theory either have not been incorporated into the research literature or have been represented as working theories rather than conclusive evidence. This article seeks to help redress this imbalance by detailing the main claims of the alphabetic literacy arguments in the context of …
Instant Steal
The Transformation of Carey on McLuhan
During his 40 years of writing about Marshall McLuhan, James Carey’s critical engagement was transformed from initial admiration, to rejection, and then to acceptance. Carey’s dismissal of McLuhan as a technological determinist whose work was inferior to Harold Innis was particularly influential. By the late 1990s, however, Carey called this position an unproductive argument that prevented appreciation of McLuhan’s contributions. This reappraisal…
Old New Media
Old New Media examines how the introduction of a new medium threatens those accustomed to the old media environment. Taking a media ecology perspective to examine the historical transitions from oral to literate, print, electronic and virtual media environments, the book includes theoretical chapters and case studies in five areas: media ecology; critical media theory; freedom of expression; Eastern thought; and the body and the media environment…
Cussing the buzz-saw, or, the medium is the morality of Peter-Paul Verbeek
Philosopher of technology Peter-Paul Verbeek adds a new dimension to media ecology by introducing the argument that technologies are inherently moral agents and designing them is a moral enterprise whether or not it is intended to be. Verbeek’s work moves beyond the media as extension theory of media ecology to a media as composite theory in which the human and technological are inseparable. This article compares the moral aspects of media ecolog…
Routine Influences on Aquaculture News Selection
Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results reve…
Sociology (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)