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Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millenniumreviewed by Rick Voithofer - 2001 Title: Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium Author(s): Paul Levinson Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 041519251X, Pages: 226, Year: 1999 Search for book at Amazon.com The cover of Paul Levinson’s
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information
Millennium depicts the face of Marshal McLuhan emerging from a
printout of computer code. The farther one holds the cover from
one’s eyes the clearer one can see the details of
McLuhan’s face. This reveals the underlying metaphor of the
book – the farther we get in time from McLuhan’s
theories the more clear they become. Digital McLuhan is
driven by the notion that McLuhan’s ideas were waiting for
the world to catch up with them. With the emergence of the
information age and the continued rapid adoption of its primary
conduit, the Internet, that time has come.
Levinson, a media scholar, science fiction writer, and friend of
McLuhan, writes from all three perspectives. He weaves his
understanding and interpretations of McLuhan’s work with
personal accounts of his relationship with McLuhan while
continually connecting his observations to the social, cultural,
psychological and economic conditions of the information age. The
book offers those new to McLuhan an... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Rick Voithofer
Ohio State University E-mail Author Rick Voithofer is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at Ohio State University. His scholarship focuses on applying cultural studies to the design of educational media, developing
culturally relevant new media pedagogies, and the use of media production as a research methodology.
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