=Articles, 1976-present=
2019:
“Fake News and the First Amendment,” Real Issues in Modern Communication, eds. Susan Drucker and Russel Chun. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming.
“The Truth about Fake News” in Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age, eds. Melissa Zimdars and Kembrew McLeod, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in press.
Afterword to Michelle Rae Anderson’s The Miracle in July. Portland, OR: Victory Garden Press, in press.
“Prohibiting Presidential Blocking of Twitter Critics Is Good for Democracy,” The Globe Post, 17 July.
“Children and Pedagogy between Science Fiction” (Petar Jandrić interview of Paul Levinson), in Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina, eds. David W. Kupferman and Andrew Gibbons. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 211-226.
Prefácio (Introduction), Transformações do Jornalismo na Nova Ecologia dos Meios, eds. Liliane de Lucena Ito and Paula Melani Rocha. Aveiro, Portugal: Ria Editoral, pp. 10-11.
“Needed: a ‘Post-Post’ Formulation,” Postdigital Science and Education, 1/1 21 January.
“Trump’s Prime-Time Oval Office Speech is Debasement of Hallowed Tradition,” The Globe Post, 9 January.
2018:
“Turning the Tables: How Trump Turned Fake News from a Weapon
of Deception to a Weapon of Mass Destruction of Legitimate News” in
Trump’s Media War, eds. Andrew Hoskins, Catherine Happer, and
William Merrin, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 33-46.
“The Village Voice Goes Silent,” Explorations in Media Ecology, 17/4, pp. 451-453.
“Trump, Google, and Hitler,” The Globe Post, 3 September.
“Jarvie, Popper, McLuhan, and me” in The Impact of Critical
Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy through the Works of
Ian Jarvie, eds. Raphael Sassower and Nathaniel Laor, New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 339-341.
“The First Amendment in the Post-Truth Age,” Garrison Institute, 15 May.
“Introduction” to The Chronos Chronicles, ed. Roy C. Booth &
Jorge Salgado-Reyes, London, UK: Indie Authors Press, pp, 1-2.
“Government regulation of social media would be a ‘cure’ far worse than the disease,” The Conversation, 16 February (update of 28 November 2017 essay). ***Reprinted in Blockbuster (English as a Foreign Language textbook), Paris, France: Éditions Maison des Langues, July 2019 (in press).
2017:
“The Acoustic Photograph,” Explorations in Media Ecology, 16/4, pp. 349-352.
“The Omnipotent Ear,” Explorations in Media Ecology, 16/4, pp. 345-348.
“Driverless Conundra,” Explorations in Media Ecology, 16/2 & 3, pp. 255-258..
“Government regulation of social media would be a ‘cure’ far worse than the disease,” The Conversation, 28 November.
“A Marshall McLuhan expert annotates the Google Doodle honoring the Internet visionary,” Quartz, 21 July.
“From Media Theory to Space Odyssey,” Petar Jandrić interviews
Paul Levinson, New York: Connected Editions; also appears in Learning in the Age of Digital Reason. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 273-298.
“Marshall McLuhan,” Oxford Bibliographies in Communication,
ed. Patricia Moy, New York: Oxford University Press.
“Why Time Travel Is So Enjoyable – Because It’s So Likely Impossible,”
Futurism, 14 April
“Cyber War and Peace,” New York: Connected Editions.
“Introduction,” Digital Media, 2nd edition, eds. Paul Messaris & Lee
Humphreys. New York: Peter Lang, pp. xi-xii.
2016:
“Fake News in Real Context,” Connected Editions
“McLuhan en la Era de los Medios Sociales,” La Comprensión de Los
Medios en La Era Digital, eds. Octavio Islis, Fernando Gutiérrez,
Lance Strate. Salamanca, Spain: Comunicación Social: Ediciones
y Publicaciones, pp. 195-201.
“Remembering David Hartwell,” The New York Review of Science
Fiction, Special Memorial Issue, February, p. 28.
“What a Day for a Daydreamed Story,” The Dreams Journal, January 23.
2015:
“McLuhan in an Age of Social Media,” Connected Editions.
“Occupy Wall Street in the Global Village,” in Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited, ed. M. Pandilovski & T. Kohut (Winnipeg, Canada: Video Pool Media Arts Centre).
2014:
Introduction to Altered States, edited by Jorge Salgado Reyes & Roy C. Booth, Indie Authors Press, 2014
“The Kindle Arrives in Time and Makes Everyone a Publisher,” Journal of Visual Culture, special issue: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media at 50, 13/1, April, pp. 70-72.
2013:
“Transmedia Transnational Video Journalism” in Periodismo
Transmedia: Miradas Múlltiples, eds. D. Renó, C. Campalans, S. Ruiz,
V. Gosciola (Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Rosario),
pp. 91-98.
“Obama vs. Romney as Social vs. Mass Media,” Centro Argentino
de Estudios Internacionales, 2 January.
2012:
“Everyone Is A Diplomat in the Digital Age,” Public Diplomacy
Magazine, Summer.
2011:
“The Return of 1950s Science Fiction in Fringe” in Fringe Science,
ed. K. R. Grazier (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 37-52.
“Friday Night Lights, NBC, and DirecTV: How an Unlikely Partnership
Saved a Great Show and Pointed the Way to the Future” in A Friday
Night Lights Companion, ed. L. Wilson (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books),
pp. 175-187.
“The Sopranos and the Closure Junkies” in The Essential Sopranos Reader,
eds. D. Lavery, D. Howard, P. Levinson (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), pp. 313-316
Interview with Dominic Chianese – The Sopranos’ “Uncle Junior,” by
Paul Levinson and David Lavery in The Essential Sopranos Reader,
eds. D. Lavery, D. Howard, P. Levinson (Lexington, KY: University Press
of Kentucky), pp. 339-362
“Marshall McLuhan and Sholem Aleichem,” International Journal of McLuhan
Studies, 1 (1), Fall.
“Engaging All Five Senses,” Room for Debate, New York Times, August 18
Foreword to Michael C. Keith’s Hoag’s Object: Stories, anthology of
science fiction stories. Casper, WY: Whiskey Creek Press
Introduction to Media Futures, ed. Rick Wilber. San Francisco, CA: Tachyon
Publications, pp. 15-18.
“The Long Story about the Short Medium: Twitter as a Communication
Medium in Historical, Present, and Future Context,” Journal of
Communication Research (Seoul, South Korea).
Foreword to Michelle Rae Anderson’s Venice is for Lovers, Portland, OR:
I Heart Media Press.
2010:
“What’s Newer than New New Media?” (expanded version of Expo
Weekly, China article) Global Media Journal-Persian Edition, #10,
Persian (Farsi) translation, December.
“The New Golden Age of Television Drama.” Pop Culture Universe: Icons,
Idols, Ideas. ABC-CLIO, 11 September http://popculture2.abc-clio.com/
“What’s Newer than New New Media?” Expo Weekly, China (People’s
Republic of China), Chinese translation, 10 June.
2009:
“Academe and the Decline of News Media,” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle
of Higher Education), symposium with 18 academics, 15 November.
“Is Spitzer Fit to Be a Pundit?” Op-ed, Newsday, 13 April.
2008:
“Cable Monopolies: Bad For Customers,” Op-ed, Our Town, 1 May, p. 35.
“Videophones” article in Worldbook Encyclopedia.
“Mobile Media” article in Battleground: The Media Encyclopedia, ed.
R. Andersen & J. Gray (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
Preface to Insites by Faye Ran-Moseley (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press).
2007:
“Second Life Meets Real Life,” Internet Evolution, 12 December.
Daily column, iPhone Matters, July-September 2007
2006:
“An Important Cable Vote,” Op-ed, The New York Sun, 27 September.
“Cablevision Monopoly Wins Another Round Against Fair Competition,”
Op-ed, The Journal News (Gannett – Westchester, NY), 25 August,
p. 6B.
“TV’s New Golden Age,” Op-ed, Newsday, 23 July, p. A45.
“How Star Trek Liberated Television” in Boarding the Enterprise, ed.
D. Gerrold & R. Sawyer (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 185-196.
“Superman, Patriotism, and Doing the Ultimate Good” in The Man from
Krypton, ed. G. Yeffeth (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 211-219.
“The Little Big Blender: How the Cellphone Integrates the Digital and
the Physical, Everywhere” in The Cell Phone Reader, ed. A. Kavoori &
N. Arceneaux (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 9-17.
“The Hazards of Always Being in Touch: A Walk on the Dark Side with
the Cellphone” in Digital Media: Transformations in Human
Communication, ed. P. Messaris & L. Humphreys (New York: Peter
Lang), pp. 121-126.
2005:
“The Big Ape on the Small Screen: King Kong at Large in the 1950s in
the Bronx” in King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One
Humongous Ape! ed. D. Brin (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 19-26.
“The Media’s Righteous Outrage,” Op-ed about the media coverage of
Hurricane Katrinia aftermath, Newsday, 11 September.
“When the Call Comes, Ignore It,” Op-ed about the cellphone, Newsday,
7 August, p. A43. (Widely reprinted around the world.)
“The Night That Alias Reinvented Itself” in Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and
SD-6, ed. G. Yeffeth (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), pp. 119-229.
“Way Cool Text through Light Hot Wires and Thin Air” in The Legacy
of McLuhan eds. L. Strate & E. Wachtel (New York: Hampton Press),
pp. 269-281.
“Knowing Hal” in Hal’s Worlds: Stories and Essays in Memory of Hal
Clement, ed. S. Tourtellotte (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press),
pp. 169-171.
“First Amendment Under Fire from FCC,” Op-ed, The Journal News
(Gannett – Westchester, NY), 6 February, p. 8B.
2004:
“A Modest Suggestion on Political Ads,” Op-ed, The Journal News
(Gannett – Westchester, NY), 5 September.
“The FCC and Halftime,” Op-ed, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 15
February, p. Q2.
2003:
“Schwarzenegger and the Fame Game,” Op-ed, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, 12 October.
“Cellphone: The Jangling Savior,” receiver, #7, February.
2002:
“WTC (World Trade Center) Starport,” Explorations in Media Ecology 1 (1),
p. 59
“Naked Bodies, Three Showings a Week, No Commercials:
The Sopranos as a Nuts-and-Bolts Triumph of Non-Network TV” in
This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos, ed. D. Lavery
(New York: Columbia University Press; London: Wallflower Press),
pp. 26-31.
“Online Education Unbound” in Communication and Cyberspace, eds.
R. Jacobson, L. Strate, S. Gibson (Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press),
pp. 215-225.
2001:
“Images of Unmediated Ugliness,” in The Fractured Landscape: Reflections
on September 11, 2001, and Its Aftermath, special edition of The
Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 2),
28 September, p. B15.
“Millennial McLuhan: Clues for Deciphering the Digital Age” in Annual
Editions: Mass Media 01/02, ed. J. Gorham (Guilford, CT:
McGraw-Hill/Duskin), pp. 198-200. [Reprint of “McLuhan for
the Millennium,” 1999]
2000:
“McLuhan’s Contribution,” A Treasury of Printing, ed. H. Shimada
(Tokyo: Toppan).
“Bulletin Board,” in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition,
ed. A. Ralston, E. D. Reilly, D. Hemmendinger (New York: Grove),
pp. 162-164.
“Millennial McLuhan: Clues for Deciphering the Digital Age” in Writing
Choices, ed. K. Bell (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) [Reprint of “McLuhan for
the Millennium,” 1999].
1999:
Interview about Digital McLuhan by Carole Novak, TECHNOS Quarterly,
(Agency for Instructional Technology), 8 (4) (Winter), pp. 4-9.
“Uncloaking the Human Option,” Introduction to Jason Ohler’s Taming
the Beast: Choice and Control in the Electronic Jungle, Bloomington,
IN: TECHNOS Press, pp. 1-2.
“McLuhan for the Millennium,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 October,
pp. B10-11.
“On the Bookshelves of the Digerati,” interview in WIRED, October, p. 274.
1998:
“The Book on the Book,” Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, June, pp. 24-31.
“The Civil Rights of Robots,” Shift, June, p. 30.
“Leave Microsoft Alone,” The Industry Standard, 8 June, p. 36.
“Society Is Not Suffering from Information Overload,” in The
Information Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints, ed. P. A. Winters
& M. E. Williams (San Diego: Greenhaven Press), pp. 32-39.
1997:
Interview by Donna Seaman about The Soft Edge in Booklist, December.
“Innovation in Media and the Decentralization of Authority:
The View from Here, There, and Everywhere” in Values and
the Social Order, vol. 3, ed. G. Radnitzky (Aldershot, UK:
Avebury), pp. 445-456.
“Learning Unbound: OnLine Education and the Mind’s Academy,”
Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, March, pp. 48-57.
1996:
“On Behalf of Humanity: The Technological Edge,” The World and I,
March, pp. 300- 313
1995:
“Sacred Genes,” Wired, December, p. 140.
“Web of Weeds,” Wired, November, p. 136.
“The Tyranny of Realtime,” World Media Network, March
(syndicated in 30 magazines and newspapers worldwide).
1994:
“Some Things You Can’t Do In Cyberspace,” Omni, August, p. 4.
“Entering Cyberspace: What to Embrace, What to Watch Out For,”
Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 17 (2) (July), pp. 119-126.
“Telnet to the Future?” Wired, July, p. 74.
“Burning Down the House,” Wired, March, p. 76.
“Will the Delta Clipper Turn Deep Space into Cyberspace?” Wired
February, p. 68.
1993:
“The Amish Get Wired — The Amish?” Wired, December, p. 124
“The Riddle of Basque,” Mindsparks, 1/2, pp. 3-6.
“The Extinction of Extinction,” Wired, September-October, p. 92.
1992:
“Bulletin Board,” in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 3rd edition,
ed. A. Ralston and E. D. Reilly, (New York: Van Nostrand Rheinhold),
pp. 144-145.
“Technology vs. Philosophy of Technology,” Journal of Social and
Evolutionary Systems, 15/1, February, pp. 1-6.
1990:
“Electronic Text and the Evolution of Media,” Journal of Social and
Biological Structures, 13/2, May, pp. 141-149.
“McLuhan’s Space”: Essay/Review of Philip Marchand’s Marshall McLuhan:
The Medium and the Messenger; Marshall and Eric McLuhan’s Laws
of Media; Marshall McLuhan and Bruce Powers’ The Global Village,
and M. Molinaro, C. McLuhan, and W. Toye’s (eds.) Letters of Marshall
McLuhan, in Journal of Communication, 40/2, Spring, pp. 169-173.
“Computer Conferencing in the Context of the Evolution of Media,”
in OnLine Education: Perspectives on a New Medium, ed. L. Harasim,
(New York: Praeger/Greenwood), pp. 3-14.
“Toy, Mirror, and Art: The Metamorphosis of Technological Culture,” in
Technology as a Human Affair, ed. L. Hickman, (New York: McGraw-
Hill), pp. 294-308. [Reprint of 1977 article.]
1989:
“Intelligent Writing: The Electronic Liberation of Text,” Technology in
Society, 11 (3), Fall, pp. 387-400. [Reprinted in Fraase, M.,
Hypermedia, Volume Two, Chicago, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1990,
pp. 62-75.]
“Progress Report from the Front Lines of Higher Education,” Technology
and Learning, 3 (4), July-August, pp. 4-5. [Reprinted in: Journal
of Distance Education, Summer 1989; The Weaver, 7 (1),
Fall 1989, p. 10; and in The Soviet Armenian Youth Newsletter,
3 May 1989, translated into Russian by Grigor Vaganian.]
“Media Relations: Thoughts on the Integration of CMC with In-Person
Classes, Books, Audio-Visual Presentations, & Traditional Educational
Media,” in MindWeave: Communication, Computers & Distance Education,
ed. R. Mason & T. Kaye (London: Pergamon), pp. 40-49.
“Cosmos Helps Those Who Help Themselves: Historical Patterns of
Technological Fulfillment, and their Applicability to the Human
Development of Space,” in Research in Philosophy and Technology,
vol. 9, ed. C. Mitcham (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press), pp. 91-100.
1988:
“Impact of Personal Information Technologies on American Education,
Interpersonal Relationships, and Business, 1985-2010,” in Philosophy
and Technology IV, ed. P. Durbin (Boston: Reidel), pp. 177-191.
“Connected Education: The First Two Years,” Learning Tomorrow: Journal
of the Apple Education Advisory Council, Winter, pp. 205-218.
1986:
“Connected Education and the International Community,” International
Informatics Access, 1, (3), Nov-Dec, pp. 1-2.
“Information Technologies as Vehicles of Evolution” in Philosophy
and Technology, II, ed. C. Mitcham (Boston: Reidel), pp. 29-47.
Also published:”Informationstechnologien Als Vehikel Der Evolution”
(trans. H. Lenk) in Technikphilosophie im Zeitalter der
Informationstechnik, ed. A. Huning, Vieweg, 1986, pp. 13-33.
“The Technological Determination of Philosophy” in Culture and
Communication: Methodology, Behavior, Artifacts and Institutions,
ed. S. Thomas (Norwood, NJ: Ablex), pp. 21-26.
“Teleconnections,” IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication,
1 March, p. 8.
“Marshall McLuhan and Computer Conferencing,” IEEE Transactions of
Professional Communications, 1 March, pp. 9-11.
1985:
“Technology as the Cutting Edge of Cosmic Evolution” in Research in
Philosophy and Technology, vol. 8, ed. C. Mitcham (Greenwich, CT: JAI),
pp. 161-176.
“Toy, Mirror, and Art: The Metamorphosis of Technological Culture” in
Philosophy, Technology, and Human Affairs, ed. L. Hickman (College
Station, TX: Ibis), pp. 162-175. [Reprint of 1977 article.]
1984:
“Information Technologies as Vehicles of Evolution,” Technology in
Society, VI (3), pp. 193-206. [Abridged version of 1986 essay.]
“Evolution and Rationality as Checks on Media Determinism” in Studies
in Mass Communication & Technology, ed. S. Thomas (Norwood, NJ:
Ablex), pp. 231-37.
1982:
“Introduction” to In Pursuit of Truth, ed. P. Levinson (Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities), pp. 1-14.
“What Technology Can Teach Philosophy” in In Pursuit Of Truth,
pp. 157-175.
Interview with Sir E.H. Gombrich, “What I Learned from Karl Popper”
in In Pursuit Of Truth, pp. 203-220.
“Evolutionary Epistemology Without Limits,” Knowledge: Creation,
Diffusion, Utilization, 3 (4) (June), pp. 455-502.
1981:
“McLuhan and Rationality” in The Great American Communications
Connection, ed. R.S. Boyd (Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona U.),
[First published in the J. of Communication, Summer 1981]
“McLuhan’s Contribution in an Evolutionary Context,” Educational
Technology, 22 (1) (January), pp. 39-46.
“McLuhan and Rationality,” Journal of Communication, 31 (3),
pp. 179-188.
“Toy, Mirror, and Art: The Metamorphosis of Technological Culture” in
Technology and Human Affairs, eds. L. Hickman & A. al-Hibri
(St. Louis: C.V. Mosby), pp. 56-65. [Reprint of 1977 article.]
“Media Evolution and the Primacy of Speech,” ERIC microfiche, 9 pp.,
#ED 235510.
1980:
“Benefits of Watching Television,” ERIC microfiche, 16 pp. #ED 233404.
Critical essay on Jerry Mander’s Four Arguments for the Elimination
of Television, The Structurist, 19/20 (1979/1980), pp. 107-114.
1979:
“Science Fiction: Fantasy Rooted in Fundamental Concerns,” Media &
Methods, 15 (8) (April), pp. 26-28, 53.
1977:
“Toy, Mirror, and Art: The Metamorphosis of Technological Culture,”
et cetera, 34 (2) (June), pp. 151-167.
1976:
“‘Hot’ and ‘Cool’ Redefined for Interactive Media,” Media Ecology Review,
4 (3), pp. 9-11.
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