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won the Suzanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form in 2000 from the Media Ecology Association, and in June 2011 Logan received the Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship from the same Association.
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in Toronto, Ontario since 2007, and a senior fellow at the university's Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab). Part of his work at OCAD involved a language-based project to change popular attitudes about the environment, which resulted in the coining of the word
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In September 2010, Logan founded the McLuhan Legacy Network, a non-profit organization based in Toronto dedicated to renewing the legacy of Marshall McLuhan and celebrating the centenary of McLuhan's birth in 2011. Logan's work is influenced by
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which deals with the hypothesis that speech, writing, math, science, computing and the Internet form an evolutionary chain of languages;
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What Is Information?: Propagating Organization in the Biosphere, Symbolosphere, Technosphere and Econosphere
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The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture
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The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture
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Collaborate to Compete: Driving Profitability in the Knowledge Economy
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Logan has also been chief scientist at Strategic Innovation Lab at
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Figure/Ground interview with Robert K. Logan. August 18th, 2010
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The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media
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The Fifth Language: Learning a Living in the Computer Age
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The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age
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and Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics at the
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Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan
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Francis E. Low
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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