Marshal McLuhan
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Marshal McLuhan, 1911 - 1980, is the media theorist who coined the term 'Global Village' and is most famous for saying 'The medium is the message' by which he meant that the effect of a medium like TV outweighs the effect of any content the medium might try to convey. Much of his work sounds quite nutty, but on closer study he is amazingly prescient on how our society is being changed by new communications technology.
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If McLuhan Were AliveDouglas Roushkoff discusses the call for papers for the Media Ecology Association 2009 Annual Convention June 18-21, 2009 Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri.
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Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often doesAn interesting discussion of how 'mud sticks'. Even after an untruth has been corrected, the effect remains. Via: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/036232
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Explorations in Communication: An AnthologyQuestia.com is a subscription based library. Even if you haven't bought a subscription, there are some good articles avaliable with the free preview: Contributors: Edmund Carpenter - editor, Marshall McLuhan - editor. Publisher: Beacon Press. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1960
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?An article that discusses the effect of electronic media on thought. The author discusses McLuhan as well as Nietzsche and makes some interesting points. I think he looses the plot when he focuses on Google and compares Google to the industrial revoloution. I think if he had really read his ...
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reboot10 - calling all practical visionaries of the world!2 days a year. 500 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas. Applied towards us as individuals, citizens, teachers, culture workers, ...
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reboot10 - calling all practical visionaries of the world!This topic - http://www.reboot.dk/artefact-4198-en.html - in particular made me think that reboot10 belongs in the McLuhan Twine. It's about how the Internet is changing the nature of society to a more interconnected and complex environment. This will sound familiar to the reader of McLuhan if ...Andrew Collins added 16 months ago
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