One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...

There should have been conferences and lectures, seminars and symposiums. Discussion and debate should have reverberated through print and television; the Internet should have been frantic with ...

Marshall McLuhan is back. The 1960s icon's theories about "electric media" have new resonance now that the internet is becoming our all-purpose conduit for news, information and entertainment. McLuhan ...

Recently a BBC researcher joined VRChat, an app available via Facebook's Meta Quest headset — and saw harassment and a rape threat. "Horrible. It was strange. It felt like it was happening to me." The ...

Marshall McLuhan, the pop culture sage of the electronic world and a Catholic convert, spent the final days of his life with Frank Stroud, S.J. During those last days of 1980, they read, laughed, ...

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Great care and attention were paid to the media consumption habits of Andrew McLuhan and his sisters Emily and Anna during their childhoods. What motivated these specific technology rules for the ...

There’s a wonderful scene in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall where Allen’s character berates a know-it-all Columbia University professor who is standing near him in the ticket line to a movie and ...

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You'll sail with television through vanishing horizons into exciting new worlds. You'll sit at speakers' tables at historic functions, down front at every sporting ...