Understanding Media¶
McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Form and Content
- The artist's awareness that the medium shapes the message transfers to the communicator's framing choices, to the UI designer's layout decisions, and to the teacher's choice of representation.
This sourceSource of "the medium is the message," the thesis that the form of a medium shapes reception more than its content. SUPPORTS the knowledge-transfer claim that medium-shapes-message recurs across art, communication, UI, and teaching (479).
- The artist's awareness that the medium shapes the message transfers to the communicator's framing choices, to the UI designer's layout decisions, and to the teacher's choice of representation.
- System
Domain-specific¶
- Media Ecology
- McLuhan's compressed formulation "the medium is the message" names the central claim: what a medium does to the humans and institutions that inhabit it — what attentional patterns it rewards, what cognitive habits it selects for, what kinds of authority it makes legible — is more consequential than any particular content it carries
This sourceMcLuhan's 'the medium is the message': a medium's significance lies in the change of scale, pace or pattern it introduces into human affairs rather than in its content.
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- McLuhan's compressed formulation "the medium is the message" names the central claim: what a medium does to the humans and institutions that inhabit it — what attentional patterns it rewards, what cognitive habits it selects for, what kinds of authority it makes legible — is more consequential than any particular content it carries
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