Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
“The Media is the Message” – The Irony Behind Google’s Celebration of Marshall McLuhan By Daniel Pantelo [On July 21, 2017], Google celebrated the 106th birthday of Marshall McLuhan – an intellectual who pioneered the study of media theory with the famous declaration,” The medium is the message.” With the 3.5 billion people who ran […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Ideas, Media Ecology, Theory | 3 Comments
Tags: academic, articles, communication, culture, ideas, media ecology
Photo illustration Ming Wong/The Globe & Mail (Click on image to enlarge) The Globe and Mail’s Mark Medley speaks with biographer Douglas Coupland on why the culture and communications guru’s theories continue to resonate in 2017 – perhaps more than ever In his 2010 biography of Marshall McLuhan, the visual artist and writer Douglas Coupland describes reading […]
Filed under: Articles, Commentary, Douglas Coupland, Ideas, Internet, Interviews, Media Ecology, Remembrance, Technology | Leave a Comment
Tags: articles, communication, culture, global village, ideas, Internet, interviews, media ecology, technology
“The electronic media haven’t wiped out the book: it’s read, used, and wanted, perhaps more than ever. But the role of the book has changed. It’s no longer alone. It no longer has sole charge of our outlook, nor of our sensibilities.” As familiar as those words may sound, they don’t come from one of […]
Filed under: Articles, Commentary, Future, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, New Media, Technology | Leave a Comment
Tags: communication, culture, global village, ideas, Internet, media ecology, print, technology, video
Marshall McLuhan Expert Paul Levinson Annotates the Google Doodle Honoring the Internet Visionary
(Click on the image to expand the view and start the animation) For journalism students at New York’s Fordham University, the shadow of Marshall McLuhan looms large. A media theorist and digital visionary, McLuhan taught at Fordham during its 1967-68 academic year, overseeing an alternative curriculum of lectures, film screenings, and independent study. His philosophies […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Computers, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, New Media, Remembrance, Technology, Theory | 3 Comments
Tags: academic, articles, communication, culture, global village, ideas, Internet, media ecology, technology
Herbert Marshall McLuhan is famed for having one of the most poignant predictions of the 20th century. The philosopher and intellectual foresaw the birth of the internet 35 years before it happened. On the day that would have been McLuhan’s 106th birthday [July 21, 2017] he is being honoured with a Google Doodle. This is […]
Filed under: Announcement, Articles, Commentary, Futurism, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, Remembrance | 5 Comments
Tags: articles, communication, culture, global village, ideas, Internet, media ecology, technology
A McLuhan Monday Night Seminar in 1973 In the Garden with the Guru Adventures with Marshall McLuhan By Bob Rodgers – January-February 2008 A six-foot-high hedge separated me from the garden next door but not from its voices. It was my first Sunday morning in the house I sublet on Wells Hill Avenue by […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Education, Innis, Monday Night Seminar, Remembrance, Students | 2 Comments
Tags: academic, biography, communication, culture, education, McLuhan, Toronto, university
A Visualization of the Internet There has been a recent discussion on the MEA Page on Facebook about the authenticity of a quotation attributed to Marshall McLuhan in a 2013 article that was posted there by yours truly titled Marshall McLuhan Predicted the Internet. The author of that article, one Shane Ingram, wrote: “… it […]
Filed under: Academic, Commentary, Futurism, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, Quotes | 6 Comments
Tags: academic, communication, culture, global village, ideas, Internet, media ecology, video
Hugh Kenner and Marshall McLuhan
William Hugh Kenner (1923 – 2003) William Hugh Kenner, literary critic (born 7 January 1923 in Peterborough, ON; died 24 November 2003 in Athens, Georgia). Hugh Kenner is regarded as one of the most important commentators on literary modernism and is especially known for his revival of the reputation of American poet Ezra Pound with […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Education, Ideas, Literature, Poetry, Scholars | Leave a Comment
Tags: academic, communication, culture, education, ideas, literature, Toronto, university
Michael McLuhan’s Graduation Address to Students of Marshall McLuhan Secondary School, Toronto, June 28, 1017 Graduands, mentors, teachers and parents, The epitaph on my father’s grave marker is a quote from the Gospel of John: “The truth shall set you free.” Maybe so but as Sen. Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation […]
Filed under: Commentary, Education, Ideas, Michael McLuhan, Students | 2 Comments
Tags: culture, education, graduation address, ideas, Toronto
Why We’re Blind to Technology & What is Social Media Doing to Us?
Marshall McLuhan Explains Why We’re Blind to How Technology Changes Us, Raising the Question: What Have the Internet & Social Media Done to Us? By Colin Marshall So many of us use Facebook every day, but how many of us know that its enormous presence in our lives owes, in part, to modern philosophy? “In […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, New Media, Technology | Leave a Comment
Tags: academic, articles, communication, culture, ideas, Internet, media ecology, media effects