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Book The Medium is the Massage

Download or read book The Medium is the Massage written by Marshall MacLuhan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marshall McLuhan
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-09-04
  • ISBN : 9781537430058
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Understanding Media written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Book The Medium Is the Massage

Download or read book The Medium Is the Massage written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Gingko PressInc. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medium is the Massage remains Marshall McLuhan's most popular book, perhaps as influential as Understanding Media. With every technological and social advance, McLuhan's theories reveal how prescient his insights actually proved to be. McLuhan's proclamation that 'the media work us over completely' becomes more evident every day. In his words, 'so pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered.'

Book Theories of Communication

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  • Author : Eric McLuhan
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781433112126
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Theories of Communication written by Eric McLuhan and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of Communication is the realization of a project begun in the 1970s with Marshall McLuhan and now brought to completion by his son, Eric McLuhan. This collection of short essays assembles theories of communication from a diverse range of famous people - from Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon to Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound - and ends with an essay on Marshall McLuhann' own theory of communication. While the majority of the essays have been previously published, all are seminal pieces in the field. Their presence together in one volume is a significant contribution to the overall task of understanding culture and communication in our time, and will appeal to both scholars and students interested in the work of Marshall McLuhan.

Book Message and Medium

Download or read book Message and Medium written by Caroline Tagg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the apparently unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and the development of innovative linguistic strategies for performing mediatised identities and maintaining online social networks. This edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by establishing a transhistorical approach to the study of digital communication. The transhistorical approach explores language practices as lived experiences grounded in historical contexts, and aims to identify those elements of human behaviour that transcend historical boundaries, looking beyond specific developments in communication technologies to understand the enduring motivations and social concerns that drive human communication. The volume reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that underpin them, and shows that methods are not necessarily contingent on their datasets: historical analytic frameworks can be applied to digital data and newer approaches used to understand historical data. These insights present exciting opportunities for English language researchers, both historical and modern.

Book Museum  Media  Message

Download or read book Museum Media Message written by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums. Addressing the need for museums to develop better knowledge of visitor experience, this volume introduces a broad range of issues, and presents the ultimate how, why and who of museum communication. Museum, Media, Message combines philosophical discussion, practical examples and case studies and examines museum communication in three sections: analyzing how museums and galleries construct and transmit complex systems of value through processes of collection and exhibition raising philosophical and management issues and exploration of work with specific audiences introducing methods for studying the audiences’ experiences of communication events in museums. Perfect for people who want to develop a more critical and informed professional museum practice, and for students looking to enhance their skills of analysis and reflection, this book is of value to anyone interested in the current debates and issues of this new and growing field.

Book The Gutenberg Galaxy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marshall McLuhan
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1962-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802060419
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Gutenberg Galaxy written by Marshall McLuhan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.

Book Significance

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  • Author : P. Beynon-Davies
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2010-11-30
  • ISBN : 9781349324705
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Significance written by P. Beynon-Davies and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant.

Book Crime and Media

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  • Author : Chris Greer
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-07-08
  • ISBN : 1000713067
  • Pages : 701 pages

Download or read book Crime and Media written by Chris Greer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprizing a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, Crime and Media: A Reader tackles a wide range of issues including: understanding media; researching media; crime, newsworthiness and news; crime, entertainment and creativity; effects, influence and moral panic; and cybercrime, surveillance and risk. Specially devized introductory and linking sections contextualize each reading and evaluate its contribution to the field, both individually and in relation to competing approaches and debates. This book provides a single source around which criminology, media and cultural studies modules can be structured, an invaluable revision and consultation guide for students, and an extremely useful resource for scholars writing and researching across a wide range of relevant fields. Accessible yet challenging, and packed with additional pedagogical devices, Crime and Media: A Reader will be an invaluable resource for students and academics studying crime, media, culture, surveillance and control.

Book Cogan s Trade

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  • Author : George V. Higgins
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0307947238
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Cogan s Trade written by George V. Higgins and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting, tour de force tale of the mob and the man who makes sure their rules are the only rules, by the American master of crime George V. Higgins. Jackie Cogan is an enforcer, and when the mob's rules get broken, Cogan is called in to take care of business. This time a high-stakes card game has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, Cogan plies his trade, moving among a variety of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, tracking those responsible, and returning "law and order" to the lawless Boston underworld. Combining remarkable wit, crackling dialogue, and a singular ability to show criminal life as it is lived, George V. Higgins builds an incredible story of crime to an unforgettable climax.

Book McLuhan s Children  The Greenpeace Message and the Media

Download or read book McLuhan s Children The Greenpeace Message and the Media written by Stephen Dale and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McLuhan’s Children is an inside look at Greenpeace’s rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media imagery. From the flamboyant, guerilla-theatre approach to the emergence of environmentalism as a dominant international issue.

Book Laws of Media

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  • Author : Marshall McLuhan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780802077158
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Laws of Media written by Marshall McLuhan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall McLuhan has been described as Canada's most exciting and original thinker, a member of the small company of intellectual geniuses this country has produced. Works such as The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Mechanical Bride , From Cliche to Archetype , and Understanding Media have established his reputation throughout the world and have profoundly influenced our understanding of contemporary communication. In his later years McLuhan was working on a 'unified field' theory of human culture, an effort in which he collaborated with and was assisted by his son, Eric McLuhan. This book is the result of that collaboration. The McLuhans are retrieving another way of understanding our world, a way known to some ancient Greeks (but not Aristotle), to medieval thinkers, to Francis Bacon and Giambattista Vico, and to T.S. Eliot and James Joyce in this century. It is based on the use of words and the conseuqent power of the 'logos' to shape all the elements of culture - media - with which we surround ourselves. The authors explain how the invention of the alphabet led to the dominance of visual-space conceptualizations over those of acoustic space and its creative words (and word-plays). They consider the differences between the left- and right-hand sides of our brains, and use Gestalt theories of figure and ground to explore the underlying principles that define media. 'Media, ' the word so closely connected with Marshall McLuhan's thought, is here explored in its broadest meaning, encompassing all that has been created by humans: artefacts, information, ideas - every example of human innovation, from computer program to a tea cup, from musical arrangement to the formula for a cold remedy, from an X-ray machine to the sentence you're reading right now. All these are media to whcih can be applied the laws the McLuhans have developed. The laws are based on a set of four questions - a tetrad - that can be applied to any artefact or idea: What does it enhance or intensify? What does it render obsolete or displace? What does it retrieve that was previoulsy obsolesced? What does it produce or become when pressed to an extreme? Inherent in every human innovation is an answer to each of the questions of this tetrad; anything that does not contain answers to these four questions is not the product of human creation. The laws identified by the McLuhans consitute a new scientific basis for media studies, testable, and able to allow for prediction. It takes in all human activities and speech; it breaks down barriers and reconsiders them as mere intervals. In the McLuhan tradition, this New Science offers a while new understanding of human creation, and a vision that could reshape our future.

Book The Mechanical Bride

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  • Author : Marshall McLuhan (Théoricien de la communication, Canada, Etats-Unis)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Mechanical Bride written by Marshall McLuhan (Théoricien de la communication, Canada, Etats-Unis) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medium is the Massage

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  • Author : Marshall McLuhan
  • Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Medium is the Massage written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, this text is now more relevant than ever, ascLuhan's foresights about the impact of new media is actualized atnprecedented speeds via the Internet. It portrays technologies as anxtension of man, illustrating how our senses are massaged and ourreceptions altered as these devices become integral parts of our lives.

Book The Medium is the Message

Download or read book The Medium is the Message written by Marshall MacLuhan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medium is the Massage

Download or read book The Medium is the Massage written by Marshall McLuhan and published by New York : Bantam Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reveals how the medium, or process, of our time--electric technology--is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of ... personal life"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Marshall McLuhan  The medium is the message

Download or read book Marshall McLuhan The medium is the message written by Marshall McLuhan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: