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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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York University Associate Professor B.W. Powe has earned a nomination for the prestigious 2022 Medium & Light Award that recognizes the universal dimensions of the life and work of renowned Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan. The award is given annually by The Marshall McLuhan Initiative that was affiliated for its first decade (2007-17) with St Paul’s College, University […]
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Junichi Miyazawa’s Japanese Translation of Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews Published
Understanding Me: Lectures & Interviews By Marshall McLuhan Edited by Stephanie McLuhan & David Staines Previously unpublished lectures and interviews by the modern age’s preeminent media seer—informal, accessible, provocative. In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published a series of books that established his reputation as a world-renowned communications theorist and the pre-eminent […]
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Andrew McLuhan Offers an Enhanced Version of Media Literacy That He Calls ‘Macro Media Literacy’
Macro Media Literacy By Andrew McLuhan Media Literacy, or Critical Media Literacy as it’s sometimes called, is a part of the media studies world which tends to focus on critical evaluation of the content of various media, mainly communications technologies. Google search results yield the following: “A commonly cited definition of “media literacy” was created […]
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I meant to bring this book to your attention last year, but for various reasons that intention failed to be realized … until now. It is written by my friend and colleague, Norm Friesen, a Canadian who teaches Educational Technology at Boise State University. There are plenty of McLuhan and Postman references in the book, […]
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Evidently written in 1963, a year before McLuhan was to publish The Medium is the Message, this important article brings together in one place a number of the ideas that would appear in his most important book a year later: technology as human extensions, the Narcissus myth, psychic numbness that derives from our extensions, our […]
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Marshall McLuhan at the Coach House, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto (courtesy of Robert Lansdale Photography, U of Toronto Archives) Please join us for our Fall quarterly meeting at the historic Coach House where Marshall McLuhan taught at his Centre for Culture and Technology from 1967 to 1980. The McLuhan Legacy Network (MLN) was established […]
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Originally posted on Miss Rosen:
“All the new media, including the press, are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumption,” Marshall McLuhan observed. We live in a time when new media is so ubiquitous as to be omnipresent and the only escape from the world we’ve built is…
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Marshall McLuhan on Pantheon, an Internet Mapping of Historical & Current Cultural Influence
MIT has launched an interesting Internet application that measures and ranks world cultural influencers by country and occupation. The New York Times explains it thus: There are many varieties of fame. Jesus Christ was the first person to achieve it globally, Clive James wrote, “without conquering the world by violence.” The best kind for a […]
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The wide reaching scope and influence of Marshall McLuhan’s most important book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), the 50th anniversary of the publication of which is being celebrated this year, can be seen from this Call for Papers for a conference this Fall in Burbank California, October 1 – 3. Paul Guzzardo calls […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 