Multisensory Environment and Sensory Deprivation in the Treatment of Reception Defects

• Authors: Peter Kosmály
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with two types of alternative therapy and treatment methods. They are considered to be used in media education, in the treatment of reception defects, such as abuse, narcosis, neurosis, frustration, fetishism and superimposition. Purpose of this article is to summarize and discuss not only these media reality reception defects, but also to object them in two ways - multisensory environment within special pedagogic treatment, sensory deprivation within alternative psychiatric therapy (dark therapy, chamber and floating tanks, meditation, holotropic breathing, neuro-linguistic programming, etc.). Methodology in this study is to consider them as using media in the way of organic reception and therefore included in media anthropology, education and ethics. Within media reality a system reception feedback is needed, therefore the method "anything goes" for this use is explained. The aim of this article is to bind alternative media based methods with the research of reception of the media reality and the outstanding media anthropological issues: therapy, education, ethics, philosophy, etc. The scientific aim not only of this study, but also of author's whole work is to sustain the whole - media anthropological view - by using partial methods for media reality analysis and proving its relevance in disputing other theories being enclosed within media discourse. Also the ethics - code of dealing with technological extensions of human competence - the media - is a part of the organic reception. As the conclusion a need of such kind of research, education and treatment is objected and the examples of author's effort are explained. There is strongly recommended to create and use other media anthropology based equipment: Hitchhiker's Guide to Media Reality, A Chronicle of Abused media, blogs, a textbook, etc.

Keywords

EN

(5-6 words) media anthropology; reception; ethic; education; therapy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creative and Knowledge Society
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 96-109

Dates

published

2011-12-01

online

2012-02-10

Contributors

author

Peter Kosmály

• Faculty of Massmedia, Pan European University in Bratislava, Tematínska 10, Bratislava, SR

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10212-011-0011-7