First International McLuhan Conference and Festival
(TORONTO, ON, September 22, 2011) — The legendary media theorist Marshall McLuhan will be celebrated in Toronto at the most significant gathering of McLuhan thinkers and creators ever assembled. Then I Now I Next: International Conference and DEW Line Festival runs from November 7 to November 10. Registration is now open. The conference and festival [...]
In light of the recent debate around privacy and social online communities, Mark Federman, offers insights to the discourse.
Derrick de Kerckhove is Director of the McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.
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The bright orange iPhone looks out of place in this ramshackle building on the edge of UofT’s St.George campus. But today’s new gadget is profoundly linked to this old place called The Coach House. Here’s where four and a half decades earlier,a philosopher named Marshall McLuhan theorized on media,technology and communication,coined some of the 20th [...]
What would Marshall McLuhan, who came up with such terms as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” think of YouTube? I think he predicted this would happen more than forty years ago. Clips and quotes from the visionary thinker. Source: YouTube, October 12, 2006 Let us know what you think McLuhan would [...]
