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In general, deeper analysis of the transmedia phenomena often includes reference to Marshall McLuhan, a renowned theoretician and philosopher of the 20th century. McLuhan pioneered some of the theory around analyzing both the medium, and the message that is transmitted through it. Conversations about...
(Marshall McLuhan ) Introduction. 'Es gibt keine Simulation' What, if anything, is the impact of technology x on science y? While exam- ples of questions of this type have long been neglected within more tradi- tional history and philosophy of science, the steady reversal ...
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Marshall McLuhan,Understanding Media. Recommended by @david_perell, @kneelingbus, and many others. Man, I really wanted to like this, but just didn't connect with it. I think it's one of those cases where a book has so thoroughly transformed our intellectual culture that reading the origin...
The public square that gave birth to the new consciousness of the Enlightenment emerged in the dozen generations following the invention of the printing press —“the Gutenberg Galaxy,” the scholar Marshall McLuhan called it — a space in which the conversation of democracy was almost equally acc...
A few humanists – Walter Ong, Eric Havelock, Marshall McLuhan, David Abram – have given it serious study. They generally conclude that the advent of literacy was accompanied by a profound shift in human consciousness – from a sense of community identity to personal identity and from mythic...
What did Marshall McLuhan mean by calling the world of today a "global village"? Give examples to explain what he might be saying. Identify and describe two specific ways that the world is not globalized (i.e. ways that local governments, cu...
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan first introduced the idea of the “global village” inUnderstanding Media: The Extensions of Man(McLuhan,1994). At the threshold of the electronic age, after the mechanical and the electrical age, he described the effects of technology on humanity with the paradox of...
Contra Marshall McLuhan, I don’t believe that the medium is the message. But my experience as a communicator in both science and philosophy has taught me that different media are more (or less) effective at communicating specific content, or in addressing specific audiences. ...