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Anonymous ID: ae1fa9 Oct. 24, 2018, 12:07 a.m. No.3582632   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2667

Marshall McLuhan had studied communications and popular culture for years, but his provocative analysis of television and what he called "new media" struck a chord in those days. The tweedy, articulate literature professor at the University of Toronto seemed to have rich insights into how these technologies were changing our ways of understanding and relating to one another, and how they might develop further in the future.

 

Thus, McLuhan became something of a celebrity in North America in the midst of the tumultuous whirlwind of the 1960s. He was indeed a pioneer in "media studies" and created many of the terms we use today, such as "feedback," "software," and "interface." He also coined the term "global village" for the worldwide interaction made possible by instantaneous electronic communications technology. In some ways McLuhan was truly prescient; there is renewed interest in his work today as it pertains to the Internet and social media.

 

What is often overlooked is that McLuhan was an ardent convert to the Catholic Faith.

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In all his subsequent intellectual investigations of literature, media, and modern culture, McLuhan remained rooted in the conviction that reality was created and redeemed by the Incarnate Word. He insisted that media technology not only delivered content but also created an environment that shaped the perception of what was conveyed. These factors in secular media are ambivalent; they can be developed in promising ways but they can also be dangerous. McLuhan was not afraid to endeavor to understand media, however. He recognized the analogy to the fundamental communication he had experienced when he encountered the living Word made flesh in the Catholic Church.

 

The more you know.

 

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/faith-and-character/faith-and-character/great-conversion-stories-marshall-mcluhan.html