marshall mcluhan
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A medium and its message
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The medium is the format in which something works. The selection of media predetermines how content gets disseminated and shared. The Internet is a mass medium. Newspapers are a medium. TV, radio, podcasts, and books are also mediums. A medium is any messaging mechanism that connects people together to help facilitate communication. The medium is…
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How technology impacts the way people write
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From Nietzsche’s Writing Ball, to Stephen King’s typewriter, to Steve Jobs’ Macintosh and iPhone, technology has changed the way we write. Describes Matthew Kirschenbaum in The New Republic: “Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this sentence on a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, a wondrous strange contraption that looks…