Convergence: Welcome to Convergence

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

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At 6:19 PM, Anonymous said...: Marshell McLuhan was the senior editor of Wired Magazine and a student of Walter Ong. He was a english teacher and focused on the use of visual media. He coined the term "The medium is the messege." He was a radical theorist about emerging technology. He made claims that the mode of delivery greatly affected the reception of information.
At 6:28 PM, leopardlady said...: Marshall McLuhan is considered the father of the electronic age. This Canadian-born scholar was the first to make the connection between technology, popular culture, and how they effect human behavior. He coined important terms such as "media", "the media is the message" and "global village." He discussed technology in terms of an extension of the human body. In later years he developed a scientific term called "tetrad" to apply a scientific approach to his theory.