Marshall McLuhan by Yousuf Karsh, from an interesting site introducing the work of McLuhan and Harold Innis. The descriptions of their ideas are rather basic and in some respects inaccurate, but the site is worth checking out all the same.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Innis and McLuhan on media
Marshall McLuhan by Yousuf Karsh, from an interesting site introducing the work of McLuhan and Harold Innis. The descriptions of their ideas are rather basic and in some respects inaccurate, but the site is worth checking out all the same.
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.
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