Quantumedia
 BOOK
QUANTUMEDIA Cultural Considerations in the Age of Information
By Gregory O'Toole; Publisher: Civic Media Press
At the outset we have the self. Beyond the self is the outside social world. How do our media communication technologies fit into this equation? Media, by affective nature and definition, are situated directly between the self and society and, at the same time, are indistinct of both, existing at a "quantum" social level, a phenomenon termed Quantumedia. No longer can media be separated out from either the individual or the community. Further, media act as a multi-layered communicative force field, an informational membrane between the two entities, and serve not only to reflect the self back onto the self, society back onto society, but also, and perhaps most importantly, as a point of interactive inversion where the self becomes part of society, and the society part of the self. This occurs only through a vast, complex layer of reflective light rays, analog signals, and binary code. It is in this way that a principle of mediated knowledge inversion comes to be.
5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm), Black & White on Cream paper, Rhythm Mountain Studios, ISBN-13: 978-0971112582, ISBN-10: 0971112584, BISAC: Philosophy / Criticism.
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The Legitimation Problem
 BOOK
THE LEGITIMATION PROBLEM From the Eradication of the Metanarrative to the End of the 20th Century
By Gregory O'Toole
Jean-Francois Lyotard writes that metanarratives legitimate. He also explains that the metanarrative has been eradicated from Western culture and that efficiency (i.e. a fast-track to profit) is the only model left leaving the current state of legitimation in a curious position. In order to understand the process leading to legitimation, this analysis works to establish the necessary flow toward the metanarrative: from knowledge, to establishing meaning, to legitimation. List Price: $10.00, 5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm), Black & White on Cream paper, 264 pages, Rhythm Mountain Studios, ISBN-13: 978-0971112544, ISBN-10: 0971112541, BISAC: Philosophy / Criticism.
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Electromania
 BOOK
ELECTROMANIA Observations from Inside A Media-Rich Culture: Jack Kerouac to the Present
By Gregory O'Toole
ELECTROMANIA is a project of new media ethnography. The culturally documentary mobile phone and digital SLR images are the motivator, and the experimental text based narratives that result examine the photographic truths hidden in our everyday global society employ the expressionistic influences of the very media through which they are captured to tell a story of the every day. The project was in full swing from July 2005 until the latest post here in November 2008.5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm) Black & White on Cream paper158 pagesRhythm Mountain StudiosISBN-13: 978-0971112575 ISBN-10: 0971112576 BISAC: Art / Criticism. Author: Gregory O'Toole, Publisher: Civic Media Press.
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The Last Modern Day Road Worn Think Tank Bazaar: An Adventure (memoir)
 BOOK
THE LAST MODERN DAY ROAD WORN THINK TANK BAZAAR: AN ADVENTURE
A Memoir, ISBN-13: 978-0971112551 ISBN-10: 097111255X, 468 pages
AUTHOR
Gregory O'Toole
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Civic Media Press, 5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm) , Black & White on Cream paper, 468 pages, Rhythm Mountain Studios, ISBN-13: 978-0971112551, ISBN-10: 097111255X, BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers.
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Say No More (poetry)
Say No More Poetry from the Back Roads and Blue Highways of America and the Adventures of the Interstellar Roadside Prophet
By Gregory O'Toole
143 ppg - 5.125x8 - paperback ISBN 0-9711125-0-9, Rhythm Mountain Publishing Company, 2001.
"In the art world, those who are thoughtful about what they are doing, are the ones who come up with something noteworthy..." - Walter Nosal, Ed.D., John Carroll University
"The poetry is story and the storie's poetry... battling or embracing and intertwining... the book is a wonderful stream of consciousness, Hemingway-ish, so the written dreams read like dreams should." - Kara Tatone, Telluride Daily Planet
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Outlaw: American Poems on the Run (poetry)
Outlaw American Poems on the Run
By Gregory O'Toole
84 ppg - 5.125x7.875 - paperback ISBN 0-9711125-1-7, Number Nine Books, 2003.
"Reflected in the pursuit of creative outlets found in the view of Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius, that the 'laws of nature are correlative, not compensatory', that good things go together...Gregory O'Toole can be likened to the Niagara Falls, beautiful to behold but also harnessed to light up the city of Buffalo and environs." - Walter S. Nosal, Ed.D. Professor, Emeritus, John Carroll University
"There are any number of writers who know, many quite first-hand, of a world too easily discounted as mere absurdity; their art betraying a disillusionment beyond reprieve. It is a much smaller group of artists who thrive in such an absurd cultural milieu, all the while searching the horizon for glimpses of hope and capturing them in their work. With OUTLAW American Poems on the Run, Gregory O'Toole takes his place amongst the latter: the "new street prophets in our modern-day mixed-up world." - Sam Compton Poetry Editor, GREENDOORHOUSE
"From these pages America feels approachable and frightening, the words fiercely straight and then turning back to warmness...Lines beating and painting a personal narrative or a stout reality, and split, intertwined between the heart and the head with satire, then moments like a love poem and an ode: words of a troubadour. It's rushing words like the tapping of jazz juiced from a common love for mountains, companionship, the road, life, and a story." - Kara Tatone, Telluride Daily Planet
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Big City Freight Train Blues: Denver Poems (poetry)
Big City Freight Train Blues Denver Poems
By Gregory O'Toole
78 pages - 6"x9" - paperback ISBN 0-9760729-6-3, Published by Ghost Road Press, 2006.
"Gregory O'Toole's poetry runs the gamut from love to philosophy to the playful expression of an exuberant and independent spirit. His poems are for vagabonds and dreamers, for anyone who values the freedom of language and the importance of social critique. Like Kerouac and Micheline, O'Toole is in love with the journeys, the highs and lows, of everyday life." - Ghost Road Press
"It seems like there are lots of us right now, thinking people, on a quest to unplug the stopped up hole of what is right and weird in this world, and what should be let through..." - Jim James, My Morning Jacket
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The Machined Word
 JOURNAL ARTICLE
THE MACHINED WORD in The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 4, Number 4 [Hardcover]
By Gregory O'Toole
The International Journal of the Arts in Society aims to create an intellectual frame of reference for the arts and arts practices, and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. It is intended as a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world, on stage, in museums and galleries, on the streets, and in communities. The journal addresses the need for critical discussion on issues in the arts, and specifically as they are situated in the present-day contexts of globalisation, and the social, economic and political artefacts of cultural homogenisation, commodification and militarisation. Papers published in the journal range from the expansive and philosophical to finely grained analysis based on deep familiarity and understanding of a particular area of arts knowledge or arts practice.
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Open Windows 2005
 CONTRIBUTING POET
OPEN WINDOWS Poems, Essays, Fiction, Published by Ghost Road Press, Denver, CO
By Gregory O'Toole
This anthology of poetry, essays, and fiction contains the winning and honorable mention submissions from the Ghost Road Press Creative Writing contest held in 2005; it also has solicited contributions by writers regional to Colorado. Open Windows: 2005 is a mix of wry, touching, and honest pieces that make us think about the notion of change, whether it occurs in a marriage or parental relationship, the physical landscape and our relation to it, or in the fabric of society itself. But no matter what the setting or theme of the individual pieces, the collection as a whole is held together by the liminality of life experience, be it the classic coming-of-age tale, man's self-imprisonment, or the loss of the romantic notion.
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Social Impact of Digital Media & Advertising (media studies)
BOOK CHAPTER
By Gregory O'Toole, Contributing Author
"Social Impact of Digital Media & Advertising: A Look at Consumer Control" in a new book titled The Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption published by the University of Texas and IGI Global.
Book description: Media professionals today are facing numerous changes within mass media that will continue to impact the creation and delivery of persuasive messages. The Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption bridges the gap between professional and academic perceptions of advertising in new media environments through defining the evolution of consumerism within the context of media change. Containing findings from international experts, this Handbook of Research provides coverage of practical issues related to consumer power shifts, economic issues related to media exposure, and definitions to understand the dynamics involved with consumerism.
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Chapter description: Social Impact of Digital Media & Advertising: A Look at Consumer Control -- Around the world today we have convenient, fingertip access to continual, informational content. At first the free flow of information seems convenient, empowering, and endlessly beneficial for those world citizens with access to it. This chapter takes a closer look at this relationship in terms of today's consumer and the mediated information they are exposed to and asks the question of whether or not this is necessarily a good thing. The chapter looks at the historical relationship of power and information for guidance in this examination while considering active and inactive audience, corporate and independent media texts, and the possible relationships between Victor Frankl's "existential void" and mediated messages today.
For more: http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/Chapter.aspx?TitleId=43354
The Handbook of Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption is now available in hardcover format from the libraries at Penn State. It should be available from the library at John Carroll University as well. If not, give them a poke, they'll be happy to oblige. Here is the info for requesting acquisitions:
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-792-8
ISBN13: 9781605667928
ISBN10: 1605667927
EISBN13: 9781605667935
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