Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21 1911 – December 31 1980) was a Canadian philosopher of communication theory and a public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.McLuhan is known for coining the expressions the medium is the message and the global village and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented.
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birth date
1911-07-21
birth place
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
death date
1980-12-31
death place
Ontario, Toronto, Canada
individualised GND number
118729977
influenced
Timothy Leary, Neil Postman, Douglas Rushkoff, Ann Nocenti, Wired (magazine), Jean Baudrillard, Terence McKenna, Paul Levinson, Douglas Coupland, Walter J. Ong, William Irwin Thompson
influenced by
G. K. Chesterton, James Joyce, F. R. Leavis, I. A. Richards, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Innis, Wyndham Lewis, Thomas Nashe, Eric A. Havelock
main interest
Mass media, New Criticism, Sensorium, Media (communication)
notableIdea
Figure and ground (media), Global village (term), Tetrad of media effects, The medium is the message
philosophicalSchool
Media studies, Toronto School of communication theory
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