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. |
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 |
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