McLuhanism

English Etymology en :af McLuhan -ism + 1 Noun - The social ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980). en Stuart Awbrey; Paul Reed The media missionaries Peace Corps Volunteer V 12 Washington, D.C. The Office of Volunteer Support, Peace Corps October 1967 8 https://archive.org/details/sim_peace-corps-volunteer_1967-10_5_12/page/8/mode/1up A basic primer on McLuhanism is now becoming available free of charge to Peace Corps members. Understanding Media, one of McLuhan’s more popular books, is contained in the new booklockers being distributed around the Peace Corps village. en Christopher Horrocks Understanding virtuality – links between McLuhan and narratives of new media Gary Genosko Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory III (Renaissance for a wired world) London; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2005 part 1 (Rise of the cybernation) 72 0-415-32172-7 Finally, McLuhanism is ambiguous on the post-modern ‘reversal’ in which reality is construed as a textual, symbolic and absent construction rather than the immediate existence and ‘givenness’ to experience that common sense and empiricism assume is foundational, even if open to debate. en Joost van Loon The Subject of Media Studies Markus Spöhrer; Beate Ochsner Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts IGI Global 2016 section 1 (Introduction and Theoretical Concepts) 55 9781522506171 However, how can it then be explained that McLuhanism is more often than not interpreted as (or better: confused with) technological determinism by the bulk of those publishing within the mainstream of Media Studies (van Loon, 2008)? Related terms en McLuhanese McLuhanesque McLuhanian McLuhanic McLuhanical McLuhanish McLuhanist McLuhanistic McLuhanistically McLuhanite McLuhanitic McLuhanized,McLuhanised McLuhanize,McLuhanise McLuhanly McLuhian Further reading