One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...

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 ...

Few 20th century thinkers predicted the 21st century era of social media and the Internet better than Marshall McLuhan. Beginning in the 1960s, the Toronto-based philosopher and scholar began to ...

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Google’s Doodle have a fondness for celebrating legendary figures, but today’s person of interest feels more appropriate for the venue than most. The company hails Canadian professor, philosopher, and ...

The work of Canadian philosopher and writer Marshall McLuhan is just as relevant today as it was in the 1960s, when McLuhan coined the phrase, “the medium is the message.” Now the animator Daniel ...

Marshall McLuhan’s “Global Village” concept explains how electronic media collapses space and time, connecting the world into a shared social and cultural environment. This video simplifies how media ...