Peter K. Fallon
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- School: Roosevelt University
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430 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL - 60605 - Dates at Roosevelt University: September 2005 - May 2014
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Biography
Roosevelt University - Journalism
Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Roosevelt University
Higher Education
Peter K.
Fallon
Elmwood Park, Illinois
A quarter of a century of teaching experience on the college/university level; twenty-two years professional experience in television production and editing; two-time award-winning author (of three books so far); terminal degree (Ph.D.) in Media Ecology.
Memberships
Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honor Society
Lambda Pi Eta, National; Communication Honor Society
Lambda Iota Tau, National Literature Honor Society
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
New York State Communication Association
Media Ecology Association
Specialties: Media History and Theory
Ethics of Communication
Philosophy of Communication
Metaphysics of Media
Experience
Media Ecology Association
member
Editor, EME: Explorations in Media Ecology (2010-11); Board member, ex officio (2010-11).
Media Ecology Association
Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology (EME)
My best. Under bad circumstances.
Roosevelt University
Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Peter worked at Roosevelt University as a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Roosevelt University
Professor of Media Studies
Peter worked at Roosevelt University as a Professor of Media Studies
Roosevelt University
Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Peter worked at Roosevelt University as a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Roosevelt University
Associate Professor of Journalism
Peter worked at Roosevelt University as a Associate Professor of Journalism
Roosevelt University
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Peter worked at Roosevelt University as a Associate Professor of Media Studies
Sinsinawa Dominicans
Associate
Peter worked at Sinsinawa Dominicans as a Associate
International Jacques Ellul Society
Member
Peter worked at International Jacques Ellul Society as a Member
IN THE DARK
Blogger-in-chief
Mass Ignorance in an "Age of Information"
Education
New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury
MA with Distinction
Communication
Reporter/writer for the Campus Slate; Disc jockey, news reader, news director, WNYT Old Westbury (Campus Radio Station simulcast on Cablevision).New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Communication
New York University
Ph.D.
Media Ecology
Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value... The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people... It structures what we can see and say and, therefore, do. It assigns roles to us and insists on our playing them. It specifies what we are permitted to do and what we are not...In the case of media environments (e.g., books, radio, film, television, etc.), the specifications are more often implicit and informal, half concealed by our assumption that what we are dealing with is not an environment but merely a machine. Media ecology tries to make these specifications explicit. It tries to find out what roles media force us to play, how media structure what we are seeing, why media make us feel and act as we do. Media ecology is the study of media as environments. —Neil Postman, "The Reformed English Curriculum." (1970).
Publications
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Second Nature
Pere Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul were two twentieth-century French Christian theologians who happened to integrate theories of mediated communication into their works. They did so in distinctly different ways, from distinctly different perspectives, for distinctly different reasons. It shouldn’t surprise us that they came to distinctly different conclusions, each of which we should consider and understand, for each has implications for our ethical decision-making processes in a complex, highly-developed technological society.
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Second Nature
Pere Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul were two twentieth-century French Christian theologians who happened to integrate theories of mediated communication into their works. They did so in distinctly different ways, from distinctly different perspectives, for distinctly different reasons. It shouldn’t surprise us that they came to distinctly different conclusions, each of which we should consider and understand, for each has implications for our ethical decision-making processes in a complex, highly-developed technological society.
Lance Strate’s “Amazing Ourselves to Death”: A Review
Second Nature Journal
Book Review.
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Second Nature
Pere Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul were two twentieth-century French Christian theologians who happened to integrate theories of mediated communication into their works. They did so in distinctly different ways, from distinctly different perspectives, for distinctly different reasons. It shouldn’t surprise us that they came to distinctly different conclusions, each of which we should consider and understand, for each has implications for our ethical decision-making processes in a complex, highly-developed technological society.
Lance Strate’s “Amazing Ourselves to Death”: A Review
Second Nature Journal
Book Review.
The Metaphysics of Media: Toward an End to Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
The University of Scranton Press
In The Metaphysics of Media, award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported—and even to some extent created—different conceptions of reality. To do so, he starts with the basics: a critical discussion of the very idea of objective reality and the various postmodern responses that have tended to dominate recent philosophical approaches to the subject. From there, he embarks on a survey of the evolution of communication through four major eras: orality; literacy; print; and electricity. Within each era, Fallon argues, the dominant form of media supported particular ways of understanding the world, from the ascendance of reason that followed the development of alphabets to the obliteration of space and time that we associate with electronic communications. Fallon concludes with a hard look at the mass ignorance that prevails today despite (or perhaps because of) the sea of information with which contemporary life is surrounded. A stirring, philosophically rich investigation, The Metaphysics of Media offers not only a clear picture of where our society has been but also a road map to a more engaged, informed, and fully human future.
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Second Nature
Pere Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul were two twentieth-century French Christian theologians who happened to integrate theories of mediated communication into their works. They did so in distinctly different ways, from distinctly different perspectives, for distinctly different reasons. It shouldn’t surprise us that they came to distinctly different conclusions, each of which we should consider and understand, for each has implications for our ethical decision-making processes in a complex, highly-developed technological society.
Lance Strate’s “Amazing Ourselves to Death”: A Review
Second Nature Journal
Book Review.
The Metaphysics of Media: Toward an End to Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
The University of Scranton Press
In The Metaphysics of Media, award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported—and even to some extent created—different conceptions of reality. To do so, he starts with the basics: a critical discussion of the very idea of objective reality and the various postmodern responses that have tended to dominate recent philosophical approaches to the subject. From there, he embarks on a survey of the evolution of communication through four major eras: orality; literacy; print; and electricity. Within each era, Fallon argues, the dominant form of media supported particular ways of understanding the world, from the ascendance of reason that followed the development of alphabets to the obliteration of space and time that we associate with electronic communications. Fallon concludes with a hard look at the mass ignorance that prevails today despite (or perhaps because of) the sea of information with which contemporary life is surrounded. A stirring, philosophically rich investigation, The Metaphysics of Media offers not only a clear picture of where our society has been but also a road map to a more engaged, informed, and fully human future.
Figure/Ground Interview with Peter K Fallon
Figure/Ground Communication
Dr. Peter K. Fallon is Professor of Media Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has over two decades of professional experience in television production, video editing, and electronic journalism; more than twenty years of teaching experience at the university level; a significant record of scholarship and publication (his most recent book is Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance), and a terminal degree (Ph.D.) in Media Ecology from New York University. He was, at the time of the interview, the editor of Explorations in Media Ecology, the peer-reviewed journal of the Media Ecology Association.
Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Edwin Mellen Press
This book details the history of the spread of printing and literacy in eighteenth century Ireland. In addition to being a historical survey, it is also a study, in the "media ecological" vein, that explores what happens when a new technology is introduced to a given culture. This work answers three key questions: first, why did print technology take so long (300 years after Gutenberg) to become a cultural influence in Ireland; second, why was there an "explosion" of printing and presses in Ireland between 1750 and 1800; and finally, why, when a printing industry had been established, was almost the entire output of printed literature in English rather than the Irish language?
Internet est-il un progrès?
L'Ecologiste
French translation of my essay, "What Neil Postman Thinks About the Internet: My Imaginary Conversation," from my book "Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance." In L'Ecologiste *the French edition of the English magazine The Ecologist, No. 42, Spring 2014.
Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Second Nature
Pere Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul were two twentieth-century French Christian theologians who happened to integrate theories of mediated communication into their works. They did so in distinctly different ways, from distinctly different perspectives, for distinctly different reasons. It shouldn’t surprise us that they came to distinctly different conclusions, each of which we should consider and understand, for each has implications for our ethical decision-making processes in a complex, highly-developed technological society.
Lance Strate’s “Amazing Ourselves to Death”: A Review
Second Nature Journal
Book Review.
The Metaphysics of Media: Toward an End to Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
The University of Scranton Press
In The Metaphysics of Media, award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported—and even to some extent created—different conceptions of reality. To do so, he starts with the basics: a critical discussion of the very idea of objective reality and the various postmodern responses that have tended to dominate recent philosophical approaches to the subject. From there, he embarks on a survey of the evolution of communication through four major eras: orality; literacy; print; and electricity. Within each era, Fallon argues, the dominant form of media supported particular ways of understanding the world, from the ascendance of reason that followed the development of alphabets to the obliteration of space and time that we associate with electronic communications. Fallon concludes with a hard look at the mass ignorance that prevails today despite (or perhaps because of) the sea of information with which contemporary life is surrounded. A stirring, philosophically rich investigation, The Metaphysics of Media offers not only a clear picture of where our society has been but also a road map to a more engaged, informed, and fully human future.
Figure/Ground Interview with Peter K Fallon
Figure/Ground Communication
Dr. Peter K. Fallon is Professor of Media Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has over two decades of professional experience in television production, video editing, and electronic journalism; more than twenty years of teaching experience at the university level; a significant record of scholarship and publication (his most recent book is Cultural Defiance/Cultural Deviance), and a terminal degree (Ph.D.) in Media Ecology from New York University. He was, at the time of the interview, the editor of Explorations in Media Ecology, the peer-reviewed journal of the Media Ecology Association.
Cultural Defiance, Cultural Deviance
SophiaOmni Press
To the names of McLuhan, Postman, Ellul, and Ong, please now add Peter K. Fallon... If you read the essays collected herein, even some of them, you will have committed the cultural heresy of the title. You will have committed the act of contemplation, in defiance of the noise, rush, bright colors, and distraction from the unmitigated disaster of technological society’s clustercuss all around you. And that will be a deviant thing to do. –Read Mercer Schuchardt, Wheaton College (from the Foreword) Neil Postman suggested that all of the social and behavioral sciences would be best understood as a form of moral theology. Without a doubt, he would have heartily approved of this well-written and thoughtful collection of essays by Peter K Fallon, who writes in the tradition of Jacques Ellul, Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan, and Postman himself, and brings deep insight, grounded in the media ecology intellectual tradition, coupled with a sharp wielding of ethical criteria, to matters of contemporary and universal human concern. – Lance Strate, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University Both a student of renowned Communications theorist Neil Postman and the winner of the Media Ecology Association's Lewis Mumford Award (named for Postman’s own intellectual hero), Peter K. Fallon is the perfect tour guide through our techno-mediated environment..."Contemplation as Defiance/Deviance" is "a call to the sleeper to awake." – Eric Goodman, Producer, Composer, Performer: Thus Spoke the Spectacle These essays by a writer of conscience and acute observation insist on the continuity between our media and our moral lives. Fallon’s evident passion for the potential of media, and his pointed criticisms of the moments when television and other media betray their promise, affect all who read his thoughtful books. – Anne-Marie Cusac, George Polk Award-winning investigative journalist; author, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America
Positions
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
urn:li:fs_position:(ACoAAAD7SKsBF70IClO_yQ0P2fhjP2Dgupz_-II,522758043)
Media Ecology Association
Member, Board Member (ex officio, as [former] Editor of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology)
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