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The Medium & the Light (1999) book, the title of which was chosen to be the name of The Medium & the Light Award Although he died in 1980, he had foreseen the Internet and had warned against the excesses of technologies that could divorce from our material existence and threaten our very humanity, technologies […]
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The group, which calls itself the Marshall McLuhan/Finnegans Wake Reading Club, in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page during last October. What’s the connection between Marshall McLuhan and James Joyce’s writing? McLuhan was fascinated with the writings of James Joyce at a time that few in […]
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Professor Robert Logan asked me to circulate his announcement that: – The final and corrected version of <i>New Explorations</i> Vol 3 No 2 (2023) is now available at: – https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/issue/view/2787. For those not familiar with New Explorations journal, it is a revival of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, created in 1953 by Marshall McLuhan and Ted […]
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Paolo Granata is the director of the Media Ethics Lab at the University of Toronto. What makes us human in an age of AI? Professor Granata believes that AI – a new medium, a new language, a new information environment – holds the potential to enhance human agency and to reimagine the future of education. […]
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The Medium Is Still the Message
In fact, this may be truer than ever. KEY POINTS Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the medium is the message is apparent in the presidential candidates. How the candidates on the debate stage announced their candidacy says something about the image they project. DeSantis launches 2024 bid on Twitter Spaces, Ramaswamy on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Marshall […]
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By Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan, & Tobias Held (Eds.) The interplay of physical reality and media environments is getting enhanced by new technological innovations. We are living in the age of digital aesthetics and there is a need for individual, cultural, or social forms and variations of media literacy. This book seeks the limits […]
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By D.R. Thompson Depending on who you talk to, media theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) was either a visionary or a simplistic slogan-maker. Put another way, his catchy phrases such as ‘the medium is the message’, ‘global village’, ‘cool’ and ‘hot’, while all well-known and used, are not always truly understood by the masses that McLuhan so […]
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Bob Logan in a familiar presentation stance The Medium and the Light Award for 2023 By Howard R. Engel The recipient of the twelfth Medium and the Light Award, in recognition of the ecumenical dimensions of the life and work of Marshall McLuhan, was presented on Thursday, June 22 as a concurrent session of the […]
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Only a few Canadian universities offer an undergraduate course on Marshall McLuhan and far fewer, maybe none, offer a course that covers the thought of both Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. York University in North Toronto does, taught by the course’s creator B.W. Powe, who studied with both famous scholars at the University of Toronto. […]
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The Passing of Father John Pungente, SJ, Media Educator (1939 – 2023)
Father John Pungente, SJ Fr. John Pungente died December 6, 2023 in René Goupil Residence, Pickering, Ontario. He was in his 84th year and a Jesuit for 66 years. He was born in Port Arthur, Ontario, but grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He was the son of John Pungente and Mary Wikien. John entered the […]
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