I have long appreciated – the often misunderstood – work of Marshall McLuhan and I am pleased to have an essay in this FREE (for digital copy) collection! “The Maelstrom of Our Own Creation,” in McLuhan: Global Warning, West Den Haag, 2020 (On the occasion of the project Feedback #5: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts presented…
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The documentary Fastball, in addition to giving us some fascinating background about baseball, also provides a great method for explaining the power of media. For example, media provide or supplement the narrative or story from which we then base our lives and make decisions and give us a general framework for understanding our environment. And…
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“Fake News” is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial “fakeness” of “news” itself. Thanks to professor Gus Griffin of Montgomery College for inviting and hosting this presentation (and subsequent As to unheard Qs).
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