Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium

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Routledge, Sep 2, 2003 - Philosophy - 240 pages
Marshall 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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Contents

Coinciding Realms
1
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

9 Way Cool Text
105

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