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Mark the date! Terry Gordon to Lecture on McLuhan for #UMRG

W. Terrence Gordon W. Terrence (Terry) Gordon has kindly offered to give us a virtual guest lecture on McLuhan. He is the author of many books and is the editor of Gingko Press’ Critical Edition of...

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McLuhan on What TV Does Best

This week we are reading the Understanding Media chapter on Television (The Timid Giant). In this video McLuhan explains why he thinks that TV fosters patterns rather than events: Filed under: Videos

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Dial-in Details for the Terry Gordon Lecture

On Monday, May 20th, at 16:00 CET we will have our next virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to...

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Will Monroe on Chapters 30 and 31 for #UMRG

Will Monroe wrote to me “I’m glad I was able to work with these chapters; they were among the most interesting that I’ve read so far.” Below his summary on chapters 30 and 31. Chapter 30 – Radio: The...

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W. Terrence Gordon on McLuhan for #UMRG

Just now we had a very interesting conversation with Terry Gordon. Gordon has edited critical editions of McLuhan’s work and is McLuhan’s biographer. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to record the audio (we...

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(TV) Coverage has Taken the Place of War Itself

McLuhan saying that the coverage of war is bigger than the war itself: I wonder what I he would have thought of drones… Filed under: Videos

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McLuhan talking about Presidential TV Debates

Here is McLuhan talking about the 1976 Carter – Ford debate (he didn’t think much of it): Filed under: Videos

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Lawrence O’Connor on Chapters 32 and 33 for #UMRG

Lawrence O’Connor wrote to me: “[My summary] was to have loads of illustration and music, I wanted it to be as poetic as my experience of the text but underestimated the task so it is speech only.” His...

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Dial-in Details for the Final #UMRG Meeting

On Monday, May 27th, at 16:00 CET we will have our final virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to...

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#UMRG Links, Thoughts and Comments #6

Will Monroe shared two links with us this week. The first is Mark Federman’s reply to danah boyd asking how to define work. He quotes from Understanding Media: ‘Work,’ however, does not exist in a...

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