The Legacy of McLuhan.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: July 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Lance Strate and Edward Wachtel (Eds.). The Legacy of McLuhan. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005.

Marshall McLuhan, one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, put the study of media on the academic map and made media a subject of popular discourse. This book of original essays, by 29 leading experts from a wide variety of academic disciplines, explores, assesses, critiques, and extends McLuhan's rich and controversial legacy.

McLuhan had a penchant for coming up with compelling and memorable phrases through which he communicated many of his ...

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