About to expound in a column about McLuhan, and what he'd have to say about Facebook today, and I can't stop thinking about that scene in Annie Hall when Woody Allen pulls out McLuhan himself to correct some windbag, and I keep thinking someone will do that to me.
Did he publish in regular academic journals, or only his (now famous) books? I can't imagine any of this getting past peer review.
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his books, along with innis' research, were the foundation for theories of media ecology. postman built a whole discipline around it at nyu. great ideas, but not very great on the replication part of theory.
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And yet you apply the theories to current media, and they seem so truthy.
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it's quite remarkable. i studied under mcluhan/postman disciples almost 20 years ago, and they salivated at the coming digital world order.
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Really? But Postman wrote so many books against it. If I'd had that insight then, I'd fear it like nothing else. I mostly fear it now.
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yeah, they were excited mainly to be proven right. you know how social scientists are. ;)
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That reassuring feeling of being right will keep them warm no doubt, even as they're burning the remains of Western civilization for heat in the alleyway of a ruined metropolis somewhere, forty years from now.
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pretty cool that we go from mcluhan to planetary destruction in just 5 tweets. global village, indeed!
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Global Yugoslavia more like, I suspect. I think that's one of things McLuhan got wrong (understandably so). He didn't see how the new mediasphere would be a bottom-up pandemonium, rather than a top-down, one-to-many broadcast.
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