Dec 29, 2009
Media Unlimited | Media Unlimited
At a glance:
- Author: Todd Gitlin
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Media
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Worldwide, but especially the United States
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Authors or writers, Music or musicians, Twenty-first century, Human race, Publishing or publishers, Photography or photographers, Popular culture, Theater, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Mass media, Television or television broadcasting, Entertaining or entertainers, Environment or environmental health, Radio or radio broadcasting, Technology, Internet, Printing, Advertising, 2000’s, Telecommunication
- Locales: United States
During the 1960’s, the communication theorist Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed
that “The medium is the message.” No one (perhaps not even McLuhan himself) was
quite sure at the time exactly what this resonant phrase meant, and since then the debate has
continued without resolution, but for all the obscurity of explications and multiplicity of
explanations, the famous phrase is clearly saying something very important about the media.
Todd Gitlin is among the most recent, and certainly one of the most perceptive observers to
follow McLuhan’s trail, and in Media...
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