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McLuhan

American

[muh-kloo-uhn] / məˈklu ən /

noun

Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.

McLuhan British

/ məˈkluːən /

noun

( Herbert ) Marshall . 1911–80, Canadian author of works analysing the mass media, including Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Message (1967)

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McLuhan likened our contemporary ills to the often misunderstood myth of Narcissus.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

McLuhan said all of this more than 60 years ago.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

“In terms of McLuhan, it isn’t a cool medium, it becomes a hot medium.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

In March 1969, Canadian philosopher and media theory expert Marshall McLuhan, in an interview with Playboy magazine, no less, warned us about the "numbing" sense that instantaneous transmission of information brings to our culture.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2023

This is what television has become since its initial adoption 40 years ago…The world is becoming a global village, as educator Marshall McLuhan predicted it would.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

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