Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

CANADIAN EDUCATOR

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  cultural globalization: The compression of time and space
  …thesis posed by communications scholar Marshall McLuhan in Gutenberg Galaxy(1962). Instantaneous communication, predicted McLuhan, would soon destroy geographically based power imbalances and create a global village. Later, geographer David Harvey argued that the postmodern condition is characterized by a “time-space compression” that arises from inexpensive air travel and the…
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  communication
  …the 1960s a Canadian educator, Marshall McLuhan, drew the threads of interest in the field of communication into a view that associated many contemporary psychological and sociological phenomena with the media employed in modern culture. McLuhan’s often repeated idea, “the medium is the message,” stimulated numerous filmmakers,