McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight
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The life and work of one of the most recognized thinkers of the twentieth century, is discussed and analyzed in the following essay. He begins to address issues such as the cryptic writing style, analyzing if he was a technological determinist, commenting if he was just a serious scholar or a technophile, but a social critic. Then there is a very important question that talks about the suspicions of his deep Catholic convictions and as a concern in his scholarship. After talking about the origin of the term of the media ecology, making a very interesting essay about the life of the Canadian Marshall McLuhan
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