Friday, June 29, 2012

A look at McLuhan and meaning

Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan died in 1980.  I so wished that he had lived to witness the advent of the internet and digital culture.  I would have liked to have invited him to dinner and ask him about how society and humankind have changed as a result of the introduction of the World Wide Web.  In this article S. Brent Plate revisits McLuhan's understanding of meaning.

"The Mediation of Meaning"