Room: SGP4.30, Sir Geoffrey Peren Building, Turitea site, Manawatu Campus, Palmerston North
Telephone Extension: 7299
Email: S.T.Eastham@massey.ac.nz

Scott Eastham teaches Media Studies at Massey from a humanistic point of view. His courses examine the interaction of media and culture at many levels, with a special emphasis on questions of technology and human values. He always attempts to come at issues of meaning and value from a cross-cultural angle.

Dr Eastham represents the interdisciplinary approach to media studies pioneered by Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong and others. Today this Humanities perspective is best known as "media ecology," summarized by Neil Postman: "Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival." The study of media thus links up handily with environmental concerns, questions of global versus local values, development, etc.

154.103 Seeing Through the Media
154.228 Media History
154.309 Communications and Culture
154.709 Sources of Media Ecology

Due to his comprehensive research interests, Dr Eastham’s books and many published articles tend to span several disciplines - e.g., religious studies, philosophy, art history, media studies, comparative literature, peace studies, and ecology. His books include: