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McLuhan

[ muh-kloo-uhn ]

noun

  1. Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.


McLuhan

/ əˈːə /

noun

  1. McLuhan(Herbert) Marshall19111980MCanadianWRITING: writerMISC: media analyst ( Herbert ) Marshall . 1911–80, Canadian author of works analysing the mass media, including Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Message (1967)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“In terms of McLuhan, it isn’t a cool medium, it becomes a hot medium.”

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In March 1969, Canadian philosopher and media theory expert Marshall McLuhan, in an interview with Playboy magazine, no less, warned us about the "numbing" sense that instantaneous transmission of information brings to our culture.

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It’s like the moment in “Annie Hall” when Marshall McLuhan arrives.

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No less a scholar of mass media than Marshall McLuhan praised Shepherd for utilizing “radio as a new medium for a new kind of novel that he writes nightly.”

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A freewheeling media satire full of visual tricks and topical references to the Vietnam War and the media guru Marshall McLuhan, “Head” tanked at the box office.

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