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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 made much of what his student, Walter Ong (1982), called the "technologizing of the word," but the Anthropocene represents a more comprehensive technologizing of the world, including processes that take place independently of human will and energy.
Bringing the Mountain to the Prophet: Marshall McLuhan's Mythology in the Anthropocene
McLuhan era un investigador polemico, lo que molestaba a sus pares en la Universidad de Toronto.
De los mass media a los medios sociales: reflexiones sobre la nueva ecologia de los medios
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
Yet the very scope and flexibility of McLuhan's design underscores its need for further refinement.
LAWS OF THE MEDIA
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
Certainly, Leistner never critiques McLuhan. She is content instead, to simply take iconic extracts from his work, and work to apply them to the complex social, political and technological engagements between the US military and Afghani society, an approach which is neither consistently applied nor entirely convincing.
Rita Leistner, Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan: iProbes and Hipstamatic iPhone Photographs
In 1999, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz highlighted the disbelief of many scholars around the world when they announced that Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) had arrived, yet again.
<>: Marshall McLuhan, antimodernismo catolico y la reforma educativa de los anos 1960
Critique: Cross-examining the life's work of a gifted thinker and communicator, from multiple scholarly perspectives, "Finding McLuhan: The Mind / The Man / The Message" is an impressive body of seminal academia.
Finding McLuhan: The Mind/The Man/The Message
An analysis of cyberpunk as a literary expression of postmodern media theories is a relevant topic and indeed a valid endeavor and Gozen manages to do a thorough job of connecting McLuhan's theories to cyberpunk novels.
Gozen, Jire Emine. Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Literarische Fiktionen und Medientheorie [Literary Fiction and Media Theory]
Spread of Social Network Sites in Saudi Arabia: McLuhan Theory
Social media in Saudi Arabia: spread and impact
IN THE 19605 AND 1970S MARSHALL MCLUHAN FOCUSED us on the effects a medium has on communication.
The work of John Foster

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