TY - BOOK AU - Anton,Corey TI - Communication uncovered: general semantics and media ecology SN - 9780982755945 (cloth hardcover : alk. paper) AV - B820 .A58 2011 U1 - 149/.94 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Fort Worth, Tex. PB - Institute of General Semantics KW - General semantics KW - Communication KW - Social aspects KW - Mass media KW - Mass media and language N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index; Preface -- Pedagogical Orientations. The Practice of Reading Good Books: A Plea to Teachers and Students -- Learning about Education Metaphors: Study as a Way of Life -- Explorations in General Semantics. Playing With Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication -- A Levels Orientation to Abstraction, Logical Typing, and Language More Generally -- Korzybski and Bateson: Paradoxes in 'Consciousness of Abstracting' -- Is There a Territory Without Maps? -- The Thing Is Not Itself: Artefactual Metonymy and the World of Antiques -- Media Ecological Studies. History, Orientations, and Future Directions of Media Ecology -- Early Western Writing, Sensory Modalities, and Modern Alphabetic Literacy: On the Origins of Representational Theorizing -- Clocks, Synchronization, and the Fate of Leisure: A Brief Media Ecological History of Digital Technologies -- Resources and Meditations. Words to Live By: Scholarly Quotations as Proverbial Theories -- Aphorisms, Insights, and Other Comic Resources for Modern Intellectuals ER -