Who Was Marshall McLuhan, and Why Is He Important Today?Thomas Farrell
Well, you’ve probably heard the expression, “The medium is the message” because it’s entered our vocabulary.What McLuhan meant by this statement was that how people learn—the medium—is more important than what they learn—the message.In other words, the method of communicating ...
Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “…[in today’s age] the medium is the message.” Israel lost the TikTok war twice. First, because it did not have a message (a postwar peace process). Second, because it did not have a presence in the key medium that lar...
In this world, the focus of the conversation should be less on the content of the image but on where it came from, i.e., the source, the communication channel, the medium. In that sense, Marshall McLuhan's old wisdom that "the medium is the message" still applies—perhaps now more ...
Marshall McLuhan said it first, more than 50 years ago: “The medium is the message.” It’s also been said that we call TV a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done. Is that fair? Is it true? Is it time to answer these questions? Yes, it is. * * * In certain circl...
There’s a very succinct analogy by Marshall McLuhan, summing up our society’s focus on the past: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” McLuhan was referring to technology, but his observation works just as well in the context of mo...
Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. 'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documen... R Barbrook - Pluto Press 被引量: 52发表: 2015年 Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be This book situates ...
These works, while often proclaiming novel or groundbreaking points of view, still build on crucial references to earlier visionaries such as Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, Jesús Martín-Barbero and Luiz Beltrão, and before themGabriel Tarde, who in turn was deeply inspired by Charles Darwin...
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” ~Marshall McLuhan Ready to have a courageous conversation or two?
As Father John Culkin so aptly summarized the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” You choose the fitness function of your algorithms, and in turn, they shape your company, its business model, its customers, and ultimately our entire...