I thought the title would catch your attention! After reading both articles for this week (and I'm sure we all did) you were probably as surprised as I was to learn that Marshall McLuhan was featured in Playboy and Vogue magazines, just to name a few. I've posted the Playboy article incase you're interested in reading it and I've posted a few McLuhan related cartoons. Enjoy!
The Playboy Interview:
McLuhan was right about electronic media impacting culture. Facebook, Twitter, texting, and the electronic storyteller (television) all affect how people think, live, and work. In the past, parents told stories to their kids, fables and fairy tales. Now, kids grow up watching TV, and they learn about their culture through media and media is their culture.
ReplyDeletePeople demand speed. Nothing is worse than a slow electronic device. Electronic media are creating new leisure time activities—blogging, etc. Goods were mass produced during the Industrial Revolution in the middle to late 1800’s, thereby altering the ways in which people lived; the proliferation of media has produced a similar revolution.
I had forgotten McLuhan coined the term “Global Village”; I had attributed it to President and Mrs. Clinton. Reality television would probably have confounded McLuhan. And how do you reason in a non-linear fashion? A+B=C. Right?
McLuhan was right about electronic media impacting culture. Facebook, Twitter, texting, and the electronic storyteller (television) all affect how people think, live, and work. In the past, parents told stories to their kids, fables and fairy tales. Now, kids grow up watching TV, and they learn about their culture through media and media is their culture.
ReplyDeletePeople demand speed. Nothing is worse than a slow electronic device. Electronic media are creating new leisure time activities—blogging, etc. Goods were mass produced during the Industrial Revolution in the middle to late 1800’s, thereby altering the ways in which people lived; the proliferation of media has produced a similar revolution.
I had forgotten McLuhan coined the term “Global Village”; I had attributed it to President and Mrs. Clinton. Reality television would probably have confounded McLuhan. And how do you reason in a non-linear fashion? A+B=C. Right?