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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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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 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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Harley Parker by Yousuf Karsh © Yousuf Karsh Estate The discovery of McLuhan collaborator Harley Parker’s Culture Box after 50 years should inspire other scholarly sleuths. BY GARY GENESKO | JUN 07, 2023 Many “lost” manuscripts are literary works, while lost audiovisual media run a close second. Then there is a lost work of media criticism from […]
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Luca De Biase, Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore By Jonathan R. Slater, Ph.D. Italian journalist Luca De Biase was the invited speaker at an event sponsored by Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto on Wednesday evening, March 15 at TMU’s Rogers Communication Centre. Dr. Paolo Granata, coordinator of St. Michael’s […]
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PUBLISHED: 2023-03-08 ARTICLES Editor’s Welcome Robert K. Logan PDF The Joke as a Medium Adriana Braga, Robert K. Logan PDF Contextualizing Marshall McLuhan Thomas Farrell PDF Algorithm, Aphorism, and Alternatives Erik J. Gustafson PDF Understanding the New Analogue Photography: Meanings, Methodologies and Aesthetics Laís Akemi Margadona PDF Commodifying Taste: An Autoethnography of Free Labour, Exploitation and […]
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In his new course, U of Toronto prof Paolo Granata tackles the allegorical nature of Netflix mega-hit ‘Squid Game’ (photos courtesy Granata) By Courtney Shea, February 7, 2023 Hundreds of millions of people all over the world watched Netflix’s Squid Game, but only one turned the hit series into a university course. Paolo Granata is the […]
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Marshall McLuhan at the Coach House on the University of Toronto campus, (Robert Lansdale, University of Toronto Archives). By Alexander Kuskis, PhD University of Toronto The purpose of the Centre for Culture and Technology, as initially envisioned by Marshall McLuhan in 1963, was to “advance the […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
Marshall McLuhan Fellow 2023 Jodesz Gavilan Speaking in Toronto on February 6
From Paolo Granata, Media Ethics Lab, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto Hello folks! Join me on Tuesday FEB 6, for a special talk with Marshall McLuhan Fellow 2023 Jodesz Gavilan, investigative journalist, researcher, and podcast host. Jodesz Gavilan has been an investigative reporter and researcher for the independent news outlet Rappler since […]
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