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8 unusual facts about Marshall Mcluhan


Derek Boshier

The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the Royal Air Force had been alleviated by reading the works of Marshall McLuhan.

Global network

The Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan was the first to forecast the huge impact of the matrix of global networks upon society, coining the term global village.

Hyperreality

Baudrillard's idea of hyperreality was heavily influenced by phenomenology, semiotics, and Marshall McLuhan.

McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar

Quentin Fiore

Of particular interest are his collaborations with media theorist Marshall McLuhan, such as The Medium is the Massage (1967).

SpaceCollective

Inspired by thinkers like Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenberry, Marshall McLuhan and Timothy Leary, who helped articulate the future by adopting a pop culture vernacular, they wanted to "use the online platform to do something similar for our times in a radically different interactive medium".

Terry Rusling

He also composed incidental music for the TV show Telescope's episode on Marshall McLuhan (1967).

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia

There are also articles on historical figures, ranging from Robert Browning to Marshall McLuhan.


Barrie Zwicker

In 1967, Zwicker earned a Southam Fellowship allowing him to work with media analysis pioneer, Marshall McLuhan at St. Michael's College.

Eric A. Havelock

The work Havelock and Innis began in the 1930s was the preliminary basis for the influential theories of communication developed by Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Snow Carpenter in the 1950s.

George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

Julian Jaynes

The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Matthew Ritchie

Through the writings of individuals such as Lev Manovich, Marshall McLuhan, and Roy Ascott, New Media has been defined, and allotted for artists such as Ritchie to explore and create within the realm of interactive art.

Mediology

Debray is generally critical of some of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (whom he sees as being overly technologically determinist), and of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

Medium theory

Marshall McLuhan is the most widely read literary theorist and is best known for his claim "the medium is the message".

Other scholars with work relevant to "medium theory" include Marshall McLuhan (1963, 1966, 1988) and Neil Postman (1985).

Wychwood Park

Several prominent figures have lived in the area, including Marshall McLuhan and Anatol Rapoport.


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Social media

From Nicholas Carr, "As media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation."