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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Replying to @antoniogm
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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Replying to @joshsternberg
And yet you apply the theories to current media, and they seem so truthy.
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Replying to @antoniogm
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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Replying to @joshsternberg
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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Replying to @antoniogm
yeah, they were excited mainly to be proven right. you know how social scientists are. ;)
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Replying to @joshsternberg
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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Replying to @antoniogm
pretty cool that we go from mcluhan to planetary destruction in just 5 tweets. global village, indeed!
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Replying to @joshsternberg
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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Replying to @antoniogm
Related: I'm always fascinated with science-fiction from the 50s through the 80s that jumped into the future but always had newspapers; there never was an internet. The concept was so foreign to people imagining the future.
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Right. And it's not like the concept of a screen with the moving image was completely foreign. Scale down a TV to something flat, put text and image on there, and you've got the makings of a tablet. How could you have dead-tree printing in the future?? Seems obvious now...
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