Michael Strangelove

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Strangelove in August 2007.

Michael William Strangelove , b. Slade (* 1962 in Kingston , Ontario ) is a Canadian media and communications scientist who researches and teaches at the University of Ottawa . He became known in the early 1990s for being one of the first to describe the Internet, which had only recently been released to the public, as a relevant, new type of advertising and mass communication medium. In addition, he predicted various later phenomena of the globalized digital revolution at an early stage .

Life

Personal background and education

He was born to Audrey Jean and George Leon Slade, whom he describes as his "first and best teachers". 1985 enrolled him at the University of Ottawa to study the science of religion , in which he initially in 1989 with a Bachelor cum laude graduate. In 1990 he wrote the unpublished text Honor and Patronage in Josephus' "Vita" (1–103). An analysis of ancient mediterranean cultural concerns and their role in interpretation , the master thesis supervised by Carl R. Kazmierski and Reinhard Pummer on the topic of patron-client dynamics in Flavius ​​Josephus ' "Vita". A cross-disciplinary analysis resulted in which he graduated in 1992.

At this point he was married to Natalie Strangelove; the divorce took place in the mid-1990s. He is now married to Anne Strangelove, who also works in the administration of the humanities faculty at the University of Ottawa . Her father Raymond St. Jacques taught at the same institution as a professor of Old and Middle English .

Strangelove states that his last name - which it has been proven to have since the beginning of the 1990s - is by no means a stage name, but rather his officially registered last name after a name change. However, he has not yet publicly commented on the reasons for this change.

Research on the new internet

L. Gregory Bloomquist , then Associate Professor of Theology at the papal Saint Paul University in Ottawa, had suggested that he use the Internet to research his master's thesis . As a result, Strangelove joined a religious-historical e-mail conference called Ioudaios (from ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος = Jew / Judean ), which enabled him to get in touch with scientists worldwide. This first gave him the idea that the Internet could develop into an important academic communication medium.

Equipped with a university Internet access, Intel 8088 , a 1200 baud - modem and a monochromatic monitor he collected between July 1991 and 1993 electronic journals and newsletters for the Office of Scientific Publishing the Association of Research Libraries in the so-called directories , which he published together with Diane K. Kovacs and Ann Okerson in three updated and steadily growing editions. At the same time he created Contents, an experimental electronic publication that published the gray literature of the university's institute for religious studies. With the help of Gopher , mail services and file transfer protocols , he archived bibliographies, research articles and dissertations from the institute, at which he was employed as a “network research facilitator”. Both projects led him to believe that the Internet could develop into a new form of mass communication and could have the potential to change communication as well as individual and institutional learning processes. He began to research historical precedents of new modes of communication in order to be able to make predictions about possible social effects of the new medium Internet. From the beginning of 1993 he wrote numerous articles for Online Access magazine , in which he focused on the social and commercial opportunities of cyberspace . Strangelove considered that the use of electronic mass media systems could provide the community-building infrastructure for modern capitalism. In his book How to advertise on the Internet , published in 1994, he developed a socio-economic theory that explained cyberspace as the fragmentation of commercial monopolies and the democratization of mass communication. At this time, Strangelove created the term "electronic Gaia " to describe the Internet . According to his own statements, this forms a metaphor "for the reorganization of media culture inherent in cyberspace, for the increase in globalized feedback , for collective memory and for a new form of social networking and responsibility within cyberspace."

Together with some fellow students, he founded the publishing and trading company Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Inc. , according to his own statements, three years before the NCSA Mosaic web browser was published, and he became its CEO . It was one of the first purely internet-focused companies in Canada. The team offered workshops and training courses around the world, produced a video about the approach to successful online advertising, and from June 1993 published a monthly magazine called The Internet Business Journal . Publishing services for companies and consulting were also offered; The Canadian government was also one of the customers at times . Ultimately, however, the company had to file for operational insolvency and Strangelove as a result of personal bankruptcy.

At the beginning of 1999 he was supervised by doctoral mother Marie-Françoise Guédon with the dissertation Redefining the limits to thought within media culture. Collective memory, cyberspace and the subversion of mass media doctorate . In it he linked economic and political approaches to mass communication with an anthropological model of symbol systems and social reproduction in order to explore how cyberspace represents a new form of social reproduction within media culture.

Further scientific career

Strangelove has been teaching media and communication studies at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Ottawa since 2000 . He was also a lecturer at Heritage College in the neighboring city of Gatineau and, through the Heritage College Distance Education program, also on the Québec School District Cree School Board. He has worked as a peer-reviewed reviewer for the University of British Columbia Press and University Press of Colorado , and is a speaker at congresses, conferences, seminars and meetings. In 2009 he prepared a report for the Strategic research and analysis directorate of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada , which in the following year led to the creation of the electronic journal The international indigenous policy journal , which Strangelove designed.

Several of his books were shortlisted for awards: The empire of mind was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2006 and Watching YouTube was nominated for the Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize in 2010 .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Strangelove, M .: The uncensored self. Essays on the anthropology of cyberspace . [Unknown date].
  • Strangelove, M .; Kovacs, DK; Okerson, A .: Directory of electronic journals, newsletters and academic discussion lists . Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC , three editions, 1991–1993.
  • Strangelove, M .: The electric mystic's guide to the Internet. A complete bibliography of networked electronic documents, online conferences, serials, software and archives relevant to religious studies . Ottawa, 1992.
  • Strangelove, M .; Bosley, A .: How to advertise on the Internet. An introduction to Internet-facilitated marketing and advertising . Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Ottawa, 1994.
  • Strangelove, M .: The empire of mind. Digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement . University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8020-3818-0 .
  • Strangelove, M .: Watching YouTube. Extraordinary videos by ordinary people . University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4426-1067-5 .
  • Strangelove, M .: Post TV. Piracy, cord-cutting, and the future of television . University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4426-1452-9 .
  • Strangelove, M .: The value system. The Internet and radical change in a time of crisis . Self-published , Ottawa, 2017, ISBN 978-1-77509-850-8 .

Articles in collective works

  • Strangelove, M .: Current and future trends in network-based electronic journals and publishing . In: Saunders, LM ( Ed. ): The evolving virtual library. Visions and case studies. Information Today, Medford , 1996, ISBN 1-57387-013-7 , pages 135-145.
  • Strangelove, M .: Online fan fiction. Is self-expression collaboration or resistance? In: Byers, M. ( Ed. ): Growing up Degrassi. Television, identity and youth culture. Sumach Press, Toronto , 2005, ISBN 978-1-894549-48-6 .
  • Strangelove, M .: ICANN . In: Iriye, A .; Saunier, P.-Y. ( Ed. ): The Palgrave dictionary of transnational history. From the mid-19th century to the present day. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke , 2009, ISBN 978-1-349-74030-7 .
  • Strangelove, M .: Internet . In: Iriye, A .; Saunier, P.-Y. ( Ed. ): The Palgrave dictionary of transnational history. From the mid-19th century to the present day. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke , 2009, ISBN 978-1-349-74030-7 .
  • Strangelove, M .: New media culture . In: Straw, W .; Gabriele, S .; Wagman, I. ( Ed. ): Intersections of media and communications. Concepts and critical frameworks. Emond Publishing, Toronto , 2011, ISBN 978-1-55239-464-9 .

Technical article

  • Strangelove, M .: Networked resources for religious studies . In: Journal of the Faculty for Religious Studies, McGill University, Vol. 20, 1992, p. 115.
  • Strangelove, M .: Free-Nets. Community computing systems and the rise of the electronic citizen . In: Online Access, Spring 1993, pages 46-47.
  • Strangelove, M .: The commercialization of the Internet. Catching the ear of ten million users . In: Online Access, July 1993, pages 6-9.
  • Strangelove, M .: At play in the fields of the Internet . In: Online Access, September 1993, pages 18-20.
  • Strangelove, M .: The essential Internet. The birth of virtual culture and global community . In: Online Access, October 1993, pages 28-30.
  • Strangelove, M .: Accessing God. Finding the Lord on the Internet . In: Online Access, November 1993, pages 42-44.
  • Strangelove, M .: Government online? Not really . In: Online Access, January / February 1994, pages 64-65.
  • Strangelove, M .: Advertising on the Internet. Myths and tips . In: Online Access, March 1994, pages 41-43.
  • Strangelove, M .: Mosaic CyberMalls . In: The Internet Business Journal, April 1994, p. 16.
  • Strangelove, M .: Using the Internet for marketing. A publisher's secrets . In: Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 25, № 4, July 1994, pages 203-211.
  • Strangelove, M .: The geography of consciousness. Cyberspace and the changing landscape of the self . In: Scrawl, Vol. 3, № 4, August 1994, pages 9-10.
  • Strangelove, M .: The Internet, Electric Gaia and the rise of the uncensored self . In: Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Vol. 1, № 5, September 1994, page 11.
  • Strangelove, M .: The geography of consciousness. Cyberspace and the changing landscape of the self . In: Wave, September 1994.
  • Strangelove, M .: Immigrants in cyberspace . In: Online Access, September 1994.
  • Strangelove, M .: A plea for tolerance . In: Online Access, September 1994, pages 38-40.
  • Strangelove, M .: An electronic end to censorship . In: Online Access, November 1994, pages 34-35.
  • Strangelove, M .: The Internet as a catalyst for a paradigm shift . In: Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Vol. 1, № 8, December 1994, page 7.
  • Strangelove, M .: Advertising on the Internet. Frequently asked questions and answers . In: Edge - The Entrepreneur's Magazine, fourth quarter 1994, pages 49-51.
  • Strangelove, M .: The end of publishing . In: Wave, [date unknown, probably 1994].
  • Strangelove, M .: Desperately seeking Susan in cyberspace . In: Online Access, February 1995, pages 38-39.
  • Strangelove, M .: Retail on the Internet. Don't buy the hype . In: Online Access, May 1995, pages 35-36.
  • Strangelove, M .: The walls come down . In: Internet World, May 1995, pages 40-44.
  • Strangelove, M .: Sergeant Internet . In: Online Access, October 1995, pages 34-35.
  • Strangelove, M .: The future of the net . In: Online Access, November 1995, pages 35-36.
  • Strangelove, M .: World-wide presence . In: Credit Union Management, January 1996, pages 36-39.
  • Strangelove, M .: Virtual video ethnography. Towards a new field of Internet cultural studies . In: Revista Interin, Vol. 3, № 1, June 2007, pages 1-20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Information taken from Strangelove's dissertation.
  2. ↑ a b Information taken from Strangelove's master thesis.
  3. ↑ a b Information taken from Strangelove's former personal homepage.
  4. ↑ List of staff from the Student Office of the Humanities Faculty of the University of Ottawa. Retrieved from arts.uottawa.ca on January 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Audrey N. Grosch: Shorter notices . In: The Library Quarterly, Vol. 62, № 2, April 1992, p. 250.
  6. ↑ Thomas E. Nisonger: Presentation of the third edition of the Directory . In: Library acquisition - Practice & theory, Vol. 18, № 4, 1994, pages 474-476.

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personal data
SURNAME Strangelove, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strangelove, Michael William (full name); Slade, Michael (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian media and communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston