A Research Of Paul Levinson's Philosophy Of Media Technology

Paul Levinson is the third generation of the logo of the media environment school.His media theory contains a wealth of philosophical thinking.He inherited and developed the research perspective of McLuhan's media analysis,borrowed Darwin's theory of natural selection,developed the change plan of Campbell's "theory of knowledge evolution" and Karl Popper's "progressive social engineering".What's more,he put forward that the development of information technology and media form was a part of the evolutionary process of nature.He put forward the "soft" determinism that the development of information technology and media form was also the important forces of human society's progress and development but not the only decisive force.Levinson is optimistic about the technology to promote the change of media form,he believes that human subjectivity is the fundamental reason for the trend of humanization of the media.It is one of the important factors that determine the use,dissemination and development of media technology,which not only shows his optimism about technology,but also embodies the core idea of the media environment school,is one of Levinson's most important media ideas.At the same time he also believes that any kind of successor technology,is the remedy for a certain lack of technical function on the past,so that the media more and more perfect,more and more "humane".His humanistic trends,remedial media,and technological evolutionary thought have succeeded in surpassing McLuhan,known as the "McLuhan of the digital age,the first person of the post-McLuhan doctrine.