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 ...

For those who have not heard of Marshall McLuhan, he was a cultural icon in the 1960s and 1970s, a best-selling academic whose ideas were so popular that he was interviewed on various late-night talk ...

Sometimes, you need to go slower to go faster. In times of great change, developing a perspective can be much more valuable than just taking lots of actions for the sake of being active. That’s ...

“Understanding Media’’ (McGraw-Hill) has a dry, professional-sounding title, suggesting a handbook on magazines and television for advertising men, in particular those charged with buying space and ...

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 ...

There’s a wonderful scene in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall where Allen’s character berates a know-it-all Columbia University professor who is standing near him in the ticket line to a movie and ...

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 ...

This paper examines the high school media education textbook that Marshall McLuhan and coauthors published in 1977. The City as Classroom textbook provides an articulation of the practical ...

The media professor and philosopher foresaw the invention of the World Wide Web nearly 30 years before the medium was created. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on ...

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 ...