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McLuhan

(Herbert) Marshall. 1911--80, Canadian author of works analysing the mass media, including Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Message (1967)
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McLuhan was a quote machine, spinning out snappy phrases that would both capture his ideas and provoke others to wonder what he meant.
The medium is us
Today's Doodle, which celebrates the visionary's 106th birthday, illustrates this theory by showing how McLuhan viewed human history.
Google Doodle Celebrates Media Visionary Marshall McLuhan's 106th Birthday
O pensamento de Marshall McLuhan pode ser acompanhado na sua obra sobre os meios de comunicacao como representando extensoes do ser humano.
Midiatization: a concept, multiple voices/Midiatizacao: um conceito, multiplas vozes
A key part of the book's agenda is to suggest the relevance of McLuhan to contemporary media theory, a project which needed both a more nuanced commentary of the nature of contemporary mobile platforms and, in the case of her chosen location, a more detailed and critical overview of Western interventions into Afghanistan and surrounding regions.
Rita Leistner, Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan: iProbes and Hipstamatic iPhone Photographs
McLuhan chose England because it seemed to be an imagined community far different than that found in Canada.
<>: Marshall McLuhan, antimodernismo catolico y la reforma educativa de los anos 1960
The main concept that McLuhan wants to show is that the message is no longer as important as the medium itself.
Social media in Saudi Arabia: spread and impact
According to McLuhan, means of communication that are perceived as belonging to the past create a "language of the heart" that encourages medium specific types of awareness and cognitive shifts in a viewer.
The work of John Foster
The term McLuhan uses is sensus communis (literally "common sense" in Latin).
Meditations on media ecology
Both Innis and McLuhan are against instrumental look to technology.
Responsibility and strategic management in the media
McLuhan presents himself at the outset as someone who knows very little about scientific parapsychology, someone who more or less accepts the "debunkings" of Randi and others.
Randi's Prize: What Sceptics Say About the Paranormal, Why They Are Wrong and Why It Matters
So wrote Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in his book The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, published in 1967.
Church in cyberspace
I take advantage of this shift in emphasis to consider the relevance of Marshall McLuhan in between.
The Sacred Community: Art, Sacrament, and the People of God

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