There should have been conferences and lectures, seminars and symposiums. Discussion and debate should have reverberated through print and television; the Internet should have been frantic with ...

MANAMA, Bahrain -- I had a meeting in Bahrain, not far from where I live, on March 2, 2011, at about the midpoint of a month of street demonstrations that began with euphoria over Egypt and Tunisia's ...

Recently a BBC researcher joined VRChat, an app available via Facebook's Meta Quest headset — and saw harassment and a rape threat. "Horrible. It was strange. It felt like it was happening to me." The ...

In the 1960s, technology futurist Marshall McLuhan rose to fame with a seemingly simple catchphrase: "The medium is the message." With the integration of television, computers and databases, he argued ...

My daughter, who is in her senior year of high school, recently wrote an essay on Marshall McLuhan. She asked me to give my thoughts on McLuhan’s theories of media. To be honest, I hadn’t given ...

Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 106th birthday. A Canadian philosopher, professor and author, McLuhan was an astute media theorist with a prescient vision of how ...

Nick Ripatrazone’s new book on Marshall McLuhan, Digital Communion, arrived in my mailbox the day I presented a play about Marshall McLuhan at a conference on the Catholic imagination in Dallas, Tex.

The Canadian professor who foresaw the rise of the Internet in the 1960s is receiving a special tribute on Google. The tech giant is using its logo to honor Marshall McLuhan, writer of the book ...