Confounding the Interpretation of Marshall McLuhan

“The medium is the message is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message...

NowPublic @ Vidfest 2008: Dr. Eric McLuhan, Interviewed by Michael Tippett

NowPublic is here at Vidfest liveblogging the McLuhan 2.0 conversation this morning,   between Marshall McLuhan's son Dr. Eric McLuhan and our very own Michael Tippett. Follow my updates on Twitter here...

McLuhan at Vidfest 2008

If you are in Vancouver this month you should get to Vidfest.  The festival's line-up includes some great people including Wired's Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson as well as John Perry Barlow, co-founder of...

The Medium is Birthday Cake

"It’s the birthday of author and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (1911). In his Understanding Media (1964), McLuhan wrote, long before the invention of the...

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