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21L.015 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES

 

CORE DEFINITIONS 1 Thursday 6 February 1997 Henry Jenkins READINGS Selections from Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Scott Bukatman, "William Gibson's Typewriter"

QUOTATIONS FROM UNDERSTANDING MEDIA

• The Myth of Narcissus: the Gadget-Lover
• Media as Extensions of Man
• Numbness
• The Medium is the Message
• Media as Altering Consciousness
• Hot and Cold Media
• The Global Village
• Media as Metaphors

WEB

• Extracts from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
• Project McLuhan
• Who was Marshall McLuhan?
• McLuhan Quote-a-rama
• Mcluhan Studies
• McLuhan Center on Global Communication
• The McLuhan Probeshttp:index.html

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