Antonio L pezis a media educator and journalist who has written for Tricycle, Punk Planet, In These Times, High Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Reality Sandwich, and scores of other magazines, newspapers, websites, and academic journals. His essays have been featured in several anthologies, including Toward 2012- Perspectives on the Next Age. His book on media education and sustainability, Mediacology, was published in 2008. L pezcurrently resides in Rome, Italy.
“The media is the air we breathe and the water we swim in; Antonio
López reminds us of its importance, and of its many failings—but he
also suggests how we can increasingly take control of media-making
in ways that can shift the world in positive directions.” —Bill
McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Deep Economy, The End of
Nature, and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
"How can the burgeoning use of the mediasphere by billions of
inhabitants of planet earth help us to address systemic
environmental challenges? And what can our knowledge of ecological
best practices contribute to our use of media? The Media Ecosystem
offers a bridge between the cyber-realm and the bio-realm that
could be one of the most important survival tools our species can
wield in coming years." —Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs and
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
“The Media Ecosystem is a necessary, timely, and useful piece of
work.” —David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous
“Twenty-first-century media is a moving target. In The Media
Ecosystem, Antonio López helps us understand the multi-faceted (and
more importantly, multi-cultural) aspects of delivering critical
information in today’s world. Learn from nature and López’s book,
and carry on the good fight!" —Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest
Action Network and director of Foundation Earth
“The turning point in López’s The Media Ecosystem is the call for
archetypal intelligence through his citation of parallels between
ancient Hopi traditions and his own anti-colonial urban punk scene.
López is one of his generation’s original social thinkers. This
book is urgent and chock-full of savage insights.” —Chellis
Glendinning, author of My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from
Western Civilization
“Antonio López has accomplished the Herculean task of creating a
powerful manifesto for the media world! This is a thoughtful,
challenging, and inspiring book, a wake-up call to all journalists,
editors, writers, and publishers. The book is a plea for media men
and women to help to create a sustainable, resilient, and joyful
future in which people and nature can live in harmony with each
other.” —Satish Kumar, editor in chief of Resurgence Magazine
“Combining media savvy, earth wisdom, and a deeply ethical account
of today’s attention politics, Lopez hacks his way through the
noosphere while keeping his feet on the ground. Sharp and
accessible, The Media Ecosystem provides practical models for a
green mediascape that will help us re-occupy the planet and the
human imagination.” —Erik Davis, author of Nomad Codes: Adventures
in Modern Esoterica and host of the radio show Expanding Mind
“Lopez paints a visual metaphor of the intersection between media
and ecology.” —Shawna Brown, Media Literacy Project "By
bringing our attention to the subtle and insidious propaganda
machine, Lopez makes it possible for us to recognize what really
motivates us as individuals and as cultures. His well-crafted
argument is followed by simple and sensible actions for bringing
media to the people, FROM the people: be subversive where it
counts, think within your landscape, and become aware of how your
attention is hooked. The Media Ecosystem is an important book with
the potential to cause a paradigm shift." —New Consciousness Review
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