Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Hardcover) by Marshall McLuhan, W Terrence Gordon, Philip B Meggs

from uqbar

(Sep 2006) I was led to look up McLuhan through a number of online sources and reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, in which he credits McLuhan as a major influence. Reading Understanding Media is drinking from the firehose. McLuhan bursts with ideas, essentially reinterpreting huma...

from amanda_c

Interesting ideas about media. I don't always agree with them, but they always get me thinking.

from jasoncomely

Original and urgent warning of mass media's effects.

from TeeMcp

McLuhan has a reputation for being difficult to understand. I think those of us who grew up in the last decades of the 20th century may find it less so, if only because his ideas informed so much of the technology we grew up with. That being said, there are many passages of the book that will req...

from TeeMcp

McLuhan has a reputation for being difficult to understand. I think those of us who grew up in the last decades of the 20th century may find it less so, if only because his ideas informed so much of the technology we grew up with. That being said, there are many passages of the book that will req...