Robert K. Logan

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Understanding New Media (eBook, PDF)

Extending Marshall McLuhan - Second Edition

Beschreibung

Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Internet would become a «global village,» making us more interconnected than television; the closing of the gap between consumers and producers; the elimination of space and time as barriers to communication; and the melting of national borders. He is also famously remembered for coining the expression «the medium is the message.» These predictions form the genesis of this updated volume by Robert K. Logan, a friend and colleague who worked with McLuhan. In this second edition of Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates McLuhan's Understanding Media to analyze the «new media» McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience. The book is designed to reach a new generation of readers as well as appealing to scholars and students who are familiar with Understanding Media.

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Autor

Robert K. Logan (PhD, MIT, 1965) is Professor Emeritus of Physics and St. Michael's College Fellow at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books and articles including Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan, (Peter Lang, 2010) and The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media (Peter Lang, 2016).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453916520
• Artikelnr.: 65842719

Rezensionen

«'Understanding New Media' is a necessary and up to date upgrade of Marshall McLuhan's theories in the context of a new digital media ecology. Bob Logan is one of the best interpreters of McLuhan's 360º vision of media, technology and culture, and he has enriched this wide- angle perspective by including categories from biology, complexity and evolution fields. In a historical moment characterized by a hyper- specialization of science - media studies are not the exception - this integrated approach is essential for understanding new media.» (Carlos A. Scolari, Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
«Marshall McLuhan's ideas on media have stood the test of time remarkably well. In many respects they are more relevant today than in the time of writing. Thus, an update of his classic work 'Understanding Media' from 1964 makes perfect sense. And I could think of no better candidate for the task than Robert Logan. His first-hand knowledge of McLuhan combined with his straightforward and lucid style of writing makes 'Understanding New Media' extremely useful as a guide to McLuhan's thoughts as well as our present world of 'New Media'.» (Mogens Olesen, University of Copenhagen)