Marshall McLuhan
Summary
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". McLuhan was a fixture in media discourse from the late 1960s to his death and he continues to be an influential and controversial figure. More than ten years after his death he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. McLuhan was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to Elsie Naomi (nee Hall) and Herbert Ernest McLuhan.
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'Why I'll start using the word 'mixmedia' instead of 'multimedia' – a guest post from Pedro Monteiro
I'm thrilled to be able to repost this article from Portuguese graphic designer, Pedro Monteiro, which first appeared on his website Digital Distribution. Lately, as I discuss digital storytelling, I find myself correcting my speech whenever I use the word multimedia.
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Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence
It’s Episode 3 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor and thinker about the ways of journalism.
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How 6 New Tools Change the Equation for Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book
When writers first exchanged pen and paper for word processing systems we didn't realize how firmly it put us on the path toward self-production and self-publishing. The jury's still out on whether the creative process was altered for better or worse. Marshall McLuhan, an early media pundit, recognized back in 1962 how "the divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page.
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Ad of the Day: Apple
I swear to you, I pulled up this new ad for the iPad mini on YouTube, and before I even managed to put in my earbuds, I said to myself, "Those two iPads had better not be playing 'Heart and Soul. ' ".
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“It’s all about content. It’s not about content” - Giles Colborne’s IA Summit Redux at London IA
Last week we had the latest London IA evening, featuring a packed programme with an IA Summit theme, as Tim Caynes and Johanna Kollmann reprised their talks from New Orleans, and Giles Colborne provided an overview of the event. As ever, Sense Worldwide were our hosts, and Zebra People our sponsors.
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Fast Chat: Gossage biographer Steve Harrison
Howard Gossage was a 1960s adman that future generation creative stars such as Jeff Goodby and Alex Bogusky cite as an inspiration. Like Goodby, he was based in San Francisco and ran his own agency, Weiner & Gossage. Gossage took pride in crafting persuasive print ads that used stunts—“Win a kangaroo!” for Qantas airlines—hyperbole and response coupons that readers could mail in.
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Google’s Richard Gingras: 8 questions that will help define the future of journalism
Opening the gathering was Google’s head of news products, Richard Gingras, a man with longstanding experience in the space where news and tech meet, who provoked discussion by raising eight areas of inquiry that might prove fruitful for the day. Here are those eight, in the form of his prepared remarks.
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Friedrich Kittler and the rise of the machine | Stuart Jeffries
Kittler, who died this year, suggested we weren't masters of our technological domain, but rather that we were its pawns.
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David Tereshchuk: Centenary of Influence -- Undervalued By Mainstream
This declining year has been the centennial of Marshall McLuhan's birth -- the man who was, if not the father or godfather, then at least our leading prophet of media-driven political and social change.
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Zawinski vs. Arrington: If life were only like this
Maybe you remember the famous scene from the movie Annie Hall in which Woody Allen is annoyed by the man behind him in a movie queue for his too-loud pontifications about the theories of Marshall McLuhan. Allen steps out of line and breaks the fourth wall and starts complaining to the audience about the blow-hard.
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