Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information MillenniumMarshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age. |
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... personal computer revolution that would change so much of our world, yet be so explicable via insights and comparisons McLuhan had earlier made. Those insights showed us a world of media in motion, in which television was triumphing ...
... personal computer revolution that would change so much of our world, yet be so explicable via insights and comparisons McLuhan had earlier made. Those insights showed us a world of media in motion, in which television was triumphing ...
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... computer devoid of its very different kind of programs would be anything other than an interesting piece of junk. This is, indeed, just what became of many early personal computers due to their inability to access the Web, as soon as ...
... computer devoid of its very different kind of programs would be anything other than an interesting piece of junk. This is, indeed, just what became of many early personal computers due to their inability to access the Web, as soon as ...
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... personal computer, a telephone line, and a Web browser, can engage in dialogue, seek out rather than merely receive news stories, and in general exchange information across the globe much like the inhabitants of any village or stadium ...
... personal computer, a telephone line, and a Web browser, can engage in dialogue, seek out rather than merely receive news stories, and in general exchange information across the globe much like the inhabitants of any village or stadium ...
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... personal computers and their empowerment of individual choice. Microsoft, the biggest corporation in the world, was ... computer screen, our television screen, our books, our media. For McLuhan , the specific way that we perceive ...
... personal computers and their empowerment of individual choice. Microsoft, the biggest corporation in the world, was ... computer screen, our television screen, our books, our media. For McLuhan , the specific way that we perceive ...
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... personal computer, also a place where our children (and we) play games, and via which we surf the Web for fun as well as profit. “Serfs to Surf” (Chapter 11 of this book) examines some of the background and likely consequences of this ...
... personal computer, also a place where our children (and we) play games, and via which we surf the Web for fun as well as profit. “Serfs to Surf” (Chapter 11 of this book) examines some of the background and likely consequences of this ...
Contents
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2 The Reluctant Explicator | 24 |
3 Net Content | 35 |
4 The Song of the Alphabet in Cyberspace | 44 |
5 Online Angels | 55 |
6 From Voyeur to Participant | 65 |
7 The Fate of the Center | 80 |
8 The Mind Behind the Screen | 95 |
10 The Rusted Gatekeeper | 119 |
11 Serfs to Surf | 132 |
12 Beauty Machines | 145 |
13 Balinese at Work Online | 158 |
14 Through a Glass Brightly | 173 |
15 Spirals of Media Evolution | 187 |
Bibliography | 204 |
Index | 212 |
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