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Marshall McLuhan: Then and Now
Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering media theorist, explored how media shape perception, society, and culture. His concepts, like »the medium is the message« and the »global village,« emphasize media as extensions of human senses that profoundly influence communication and social structures. He analyzed transitions from oral to print culture and the impact of electronic media on thought and interaction. This volume seeks global contributions applying McLuhan's theories to AI, digital media, knowledge, creativity, and body-mind relations in today's networked world. In this volume, edited by Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan and Tobias Held, scholars from diverse fields—media theory, philosophy, sociology, art, game studies, and more—are examining McLuhan's enduring relevance in analyzing contemporary technological and cultural transformations.
Reading McLuhan Reading
Sixty years after Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan remains one of the best known and most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. Far beyond academia, readers (and non-readers) recognize his coinages, such as ‘the Gutenberg era’, the ‘global village’ and ‘the medium is the message'. A literary scholar by profession, McLuhan was one of the first academics to recognize the new opportunities offered by radio and television to reach audiences beyond the readerships of scholarly journals. His talks and appearances ushered in public intellectual debate concerning the ‘electronic age’. Although his reputation waned in the 1970s, the recent making-available to the publ...
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines ...
Finding Nothing
Finding Nothing explores the eruption of avant-garde writing in Vancouver that re-invented the culture of the city in the second half of the twentieth century.
Beyond Media Literacy
The interplay of physical reality and media environments is getting enhanced by new technological innovations. We are living in the age of digital aesthetics and there is a need for individual, cultural or social forms and variations of media literacy. This book seeks the limits of media literacies, and to go beyond them. »Beyond Media Literacy« contributes to the wide range of the media literacy discourse with approaches in modern media theory, philosophy, art and film theory, computer graphics as well as the complex range of modern aesthetics. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of media and literacy in the context of media as environments with effects on psyche and society.
Eric McLuhan and the Media Ecology in the XXI Century
Im letzten Vortrag vor seinem plötzlichen Tod im Jahr 2018 gelang es Eric McLuhan, Sohn Marshall McLuhans, auf eindrückliche Weise sowohl die Positionen als auch Perspektiven einer bereits mehrere Jahrzehnte umfassenden interdisziplinären und internationalen ›Media Ecology‹ miteinander zu verknüpfen. Dieses Forschungsfeld thematisiert Medien nicht primär in einer eher traditionellen beziehungsweise konservativen Funktion als Vermittler von Informationen, sondern fokussiert bewusst die materielle und technologische Anwesenheit und Form von Medien innerhalb einer Kultur und betrachtet deren Einfluss auf Psyche und Verhalten von Individuen innerhalb mediatisierter Gesellschaften. Der Band möchte einen Raum schaffen für die Fortschreibung des McLuhan'sches Denkens im Kontext einer (post-)modernen ›Media Ecology‹. Inhaltlich flankiert wird Eric McLuhans hier erstmals im deutschsprachigen Diskurs publizierter Vortrag durch Beiträge von Oliver Ruf und Tobias Held sowie durch ein von Lars C. Grabbe geführtes Interview mit Eric McLuhans Sohn Andrew McLuhan.
Clarifying McLuhan
A critical, yet sympathetic assessment of McLuhan's work and impact.
