This post is a juicy piece of meat.I have found that a great way to explore whether or not I really understand something is to try…
What Would Marshall McLuhan Say?The more we speed into a future that finds us living in the “moment” created by Twitter or the “news feed” created by Facebook or the “stream of constructed content and re-distributed copy” created by Huff Po and Buzzfeed, the more I turn to the prescient views of…
Extensions of MenMarshall McLuhan talks about media as an extension of our bodies. Traditional media specifically extends our bodies and senses (ie. television extends our eyes, telephone extends our voice, etc.) while newer electronic media could be said to extend internal parts of our bodies (ie. computers…
What is a Tetrad?“We found that everything man makes and does, every process, every style, every artefact, every poem, song, painting, gimmick…
What is a medium?To understand why “the medium is the message”, you have to first consider what media are.
My Global VillageWhile having a look at Marshall McLuhan’s concept of a ‘Global Village’, which he first popularized in his 1962 book The Gutenburg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, I began to look at my own personal global village or global hut within the village.