by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
McLuhan is famously hard to summarize or to structure hierarchically… or to put into a short elevator speech describing and revealing what he was/ is all about. This YouTube audio lecture is one of the more accessible ways in to Understanding McLuhan, but...
by andflywrite | Sep 29, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here’s the Wikipedia page on McLuhan. Then an insightful bio by Terrence Gordon below. By Terrence Gordon (July 2002) One of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time whose remarkable perception propelled him onto the...
by andflywrite | Sep 27, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
We are challenged today to learn about this new place we live in, during the ongoing communications revolution. PSA will publish here a series of posts that look for “big ideas” to help us understand who we are, and who we might become. We begin with an...
by andflywrite | Aug 30, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
McLuhan explains that huge changes in culture and civilization proceed from big changes in our perceptions based on changes in the media we use. So, he focuses on evidence of such change to sort of provide proof that this is how it “works”. As an example...
by andflywrite | Aug 2, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
As has been noted, Marshall McLuhan worked on developing curricula for HS students to enable “understanding media”. At that time, the big media transformation ongoing was that of from print and radio to TV. He noted that teachers born before the transition...
