Understanding Me (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marshall McLuhan
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Media
- Time of Work: 1959-1979
- Setting: Toronto
- Principal Characters: Marshall McLuhan, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder, Gilbert Seldes, Frank Kermode, Tom Wolfe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, 1970’s, Twentieth century, Communication, Canada or Canadians, Mass media, Television or television broadcasting, Radio or radio broadcasting, Learning or scholarship, Technology, Telecommunication
- Locales: Toronto, Canada
A former librarian of Congress, the historian Daniel Boorstin described the printed book as the most efficient system ever devised for the storage and retrieval of information. Those who share his bias may find it ironic that many hours of Marshall McLuhan's pronouncements on the new electronic media, preserved in long obsolete videotape formats, are now readily accessible in book form. Yet McLuhan was a professor of literature and liked to remind television interviewers such as Tom Brokaw, “I teach books from morning till night.”
McLuhan's only quarrel with the print...
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