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1. Marshall McLuhan

   Edited by Gary Genosko

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   This collection contains key critical essays and assessments of the writings of Canadian communications thinker Marshall McLuhan selected from the voluminous output of the past forty years. McLuhan's famous aphorisms and uncanny ability to sense megatrends are once again in circulation across and...

   Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge
2. Understanding Media

   2nd Edition

   By Marshall McLuhan

   Series: Routledge Classics

   When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty...

   Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge
3. Digital McLuhan

   A Guide to the Information Millennium

   By Paul Levinson

   Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium.Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important...

   Published March 14th 2001 by Routledge
4. McLuhan and Baudrillard

   Masters of Implosion

   By Gary Genosko

   Gary Genosko's timely study traces McLuhan's influence on the work of Jean Baudrillard, arguing that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Genosko explores how McLuhan's ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard's...

   Published April 7th 1999 by Routledge
5. Media Research

   Technology, Art and Communication

   By Marshall McLuhan

   Edited by Michel Moos

   Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture

   Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) received his PhD in English literature from Cambridge University and taught in the United States and Canada. He is best known, however, as the founding father of media studies. McLuhan was Director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of...

   Published March 22nd 1998 by Routledge
6. Essential McLuhan

   Edited by Eric McLuhan, Frank Zingrone

   Essential McLuhan brings together in one concise volume key writings by Marshall McLuhan, the hugely influential guru of the mass media. Today, in a communications environment transformed by the rapid spread of electronic media, McLuhan's insights are fresher and more applicable today than when he...

   Published June 4th 1997 by Routledge