Marshall McLuhan
"Global village" coiner
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian media theorist whose ideas shaped how we think about communication technology.
His phrase the medium is the message argues that how information reaches us matters as much as the information itself.
He coined global village to describe how electronic media collapse distance, making the world feel smaller.
McLuhan distinguished between "hot" media (high definition, low participation) and "cool" media (low definition, high participation).
His work from the 1960s proved prescient about the internet age.
Investigative examinations
- rear-view mirrorWindshield-mounted backward reflector
- narcosisDrug-induced insensibility
- obsolescenceState of becoming disused
- retrievalAct of getting back
reversal · enhancement · amputation · participation · environment
Ontario's capital city
- CanadianNorth American northerner
- ManitobaCentral Canadian province
- EdmontonAlberta's capital
- AlbertaWestern Canadian province
Winnipeg · Catholicism · convert · Cambridge · counterculture · 1960s · Annie Hall · patron saint
State of mutual linkage
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
- implosionViolent collapse inward
- satellite communicationTransmission via orbiting relay
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- James Joyce
- T.S. Eliot
- New CriticismText-autonomous literary analysis
- Thomas AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian
Communication discipline at universities
- media literacySkill evaluating information sources
- prescientHaving advance knowledge
- misunderstoodIncorrectly comprehended
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
probes
Investigative examinations
- rear-view mirrorWindshield-mounted backward reflector
- narcosisDrug-induced insensibility
- obsolescenceState of becoming disused
retrieval · reversal · enhancement · amputation · participation · environment
Toronto
Ontario's capital city
Alberta · Winnipeg · Catholicism · convert · Cambridge · counterculture · 1960s · Annie Hall · patron saint
interconnectedness
State of mutual linkage
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
- implosionViolent collapse inward
- satellite communicationTransmission via orbiting relay
G.K. Chesterton
- New CriticismText-autonomous literary analysis
- Thomas AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian
media studies
Communication discipline at universities
- media literacySkill evaluating information sources
- prescientHaving advance knowledge
- misunderstoodIncorrectly comprehended
aphorisms
Concise memorable truths
- graphic designArranging images and text