MEDIA ECOLOGY, GLOBALIZATION, AND EMANCIPATION:
BEYOND THE CARNIVALESQUE
by Dr. Frederick Abraham
We wanted to examine a simple question for which there may be no answer. We viewed
almost every psychological or social system as “chaotic” in the more formal sense of systems
theory, due to the result of a mixture of forces of convergence toward totalizing ideologies and
forces of divergence and cultural diversity somewhat akin to Bakhtin’s concepts of diologic,
heteroglossia, polyphony, and unfinalizability. So the question we posed was, to what extent
does electronic communication (the mode of information) tend to favor forces toward totalization
versus the liberating forces of the dialogic?”
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