A Study On The Aesthetics Of Toronto School Media Theory

The word "Toronto school" is firstly put forward by John goody and watt,explained the formation of school,the earliest can be traced back to the fifties and sixties of the 20 th century,to pioneer Harold the loch,Marshall McLuhan taught at the university of Toronto in Canada and,in addition to the Marshall McLuhan,Harold,nice represented by the first generation of researchers,in the process of Toronto school of historical development,has produced by walter.Weng,Donald,and Robert Logan,represented by the second generation of the Toronto school of research scholars and Eric McLuhan,Derek DE Kerckhove,Eric harvard Locke,Eamon DE Carpenters etc.As a representative of the third generation of research scholars.Toronto school to continuous attention to the problems of human civilization,culture,and in the media ecology school of its own,at the same time,the Toronto school expect each kind of media as a kind of environmental perception,by this thesis germinal out the aesthetic connotation and aesthetic value is worthy of our attention.Is based on the above background,the purpose of this paper is to discuss with Harold the loch,Marshall McLuhan,eamon DE carpenter,Robert Logan,Eric harvard Locke,Derek DE g and Toronto school representative of media theory and media thoughts,on the basis of expounding ignored and cover of literature,aesthetic ideas,in order to the literature of the new century,aesthetic research provides a new reference point,to inject new origin.At present,the research focus of academic circles to the Toronto school and focus mainly concentrated in the medium in the thought of individual media theorists and researchers in the majority with news propagation direction;Will focus on the development of media ecology school combing,introduction to media ecology school theorist media thought,thus formed the media theory of "the perspective of journalism and communication",in general has not yet been a communication discipline limitations and threshold.With Toronto school study relatively "perspective of journalism and communication",a small number of scholars from the aesthetic Angle,discusses the Toronto school of media theory and media thought aesthetic value,but in the process of research is aimed at Marshall McLuhan,Harold,nice medium such as person's mind,to the Toronto school other theorists as well as the Toronto school of longitudinal research is less.The fact is,represented by Marshall McLuhan Toronto school of thought with its sense of beauty,of consciousness study makes itself has a very rich aesthetic resources.Media research,in other words,only the research contents of the Toronto school,to the human senses,perception of aesthetic horizon,the master is the essence and core of Toronto school.Because of this,the media thought of Toronto school of media theorist aesthetic horizon,discussion and the research is very urgent and necessary.However,the current research status,the scholars at home and abroad at present focus mainly focused on the McLuhan,and Marshall McLuhan's aesthetic research as the core of McLuhan future research.The Toronto school other theorists such as Harold the loch,Eric harvard Locke,eamon DE carpenter,Robert Logan,Derek DE Kerckhoveet al.Research is lack of aesthetic dimension calculation system.Will be predisposed to as communications giant McLuhan,were ignored its dispersion medium theory,subtle aesthetic thought is a common problem existing in current academic circles,dig deeper into the Toronto school aesthetic resources in medium theory is the question before the researchers.In view of the present research at home and abroad on media ecology problems presented by the "one-sided" almost "journalism and communication model",this thesis aims to dig and analyze the aesthetic resources in medium of Toronto school of thought,in order to reveal the new viewpoint of Toronto school of media theory research.At the same time,we should also realize that medium of Toronto school of thought in literature spirit and aesthetic spirit is scattered,fragmented,and not a system.Not only that,the Toronto school media theorist technology perspective and discourse,and the media,technology to rise to the status of ontology of social,cultural change study way,and so on are greatly influenced subsequent researchers on which the study of literature and aesthetics and exposition.