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| 论文语言：English |
| 论文国家：U.K. |
| 登出日期： 2007-07-25 |
| 字数： 5000 |
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of media and
complexity. The liminal is that space between what we know to be true and real and a
wider world of unimaginable complexity. Again, where rational understanding is
insufficient to addressing the imponderable and monumental forces of life, media rituals
make the world manageable. They do so by giving that which exceeds rational
comprehension a different kind of meaning. Media rituals, and their role in helping us
make the liminal humane, invite further reflection on the nature of complexity and the
media’s responsibility to it.
2. Context and perspective: complexity, human understanding and action
in uncertain times
The source for the following section is the Governor-General’s award-winning book,
The Ingenuity Gap, by Thomas Homer-Dixon. - Homer-Dixon is a native of Victoria,
B.C., Director of the
Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of
Toronto, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Toronto. His two books are Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (1999),
and The Ingenuity Gap (2000).
a. the lessons of Flight 232
In July 1989, a United Airlines flight was traveling from Denver to Chicago when an
explosion destroyed all its hydraulic systems, leaving it with almost no power to steer.
The destruction of all the hydraulics at the same time was a rare and unlikely event,
and as the panicked crew contacted United Airlines for guidance,英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】 flight support staff
there confessed to not knowing how to respond to such a total malfunction of the
airliner’s systems. The flight crew, joined by another pilot who just happened to be a
passenger on the flight, was left alone to handle a bewildering amount of information
and decisions in a time of crisis.
Homer-Dixon, a Canadian academic with a large readership among the general public
and winner of the Governor-General’s award for The Ingenuity Gap, sees in the story of Flight 232 a parable for our complex times. That is, Western society is similarly plagued
with problems of enormous scale and complexity, yet does not seem to have the tools
or the analytical capacity to cope with the likes of global warming, water scarcity, ozone
depletion, or overpopulation. In other words, humanity is suffering a deficit where
understanding and solving the world’s problems is concerned—or in Homer-Dixon’s
words, “an ingenuity gap.”
As he writes: “Is our world becoming too complex to manage? Can all societies supply
the ingenuity they need to meet the challenges they face?” (p. 20)
b. the nature of ingenuity and the problem of the gap
Homer-Dixon defines ingenuity as follows: “ideas that can be applied to solve practical
technical and social problems” (p. 21). More specifically, ingenuity is “a set of
instructions that tell us how to arrange the constituent parts of our social and physical
worlds in ways that help us to achieve our
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