| Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium Revised Edition Contributor(s): Levinson, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415249910 ISBN-13: 9780415249911 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the "Wired" generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | History |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 00066490 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.18" W x 9.24" (0.82 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age. |