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The medium is the message is the transmitter is the receiver

Posted on:: April 7th, 2013

Al Jazeera asked me to contribute a one-minute video for an episode of Listening Post about how McLuhan looks in the Age of the Internet. They ultimately rejected it. I can see why; it’s pretty geeky. Also, it’s not very interesting.

So, what the heck, here it is:

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William Meloney, on April 7th, 2013 at 9:57 am Said:

How ironic that I loved the message but disliked the medium. So much visual noise made it almost impossible to concentrate on the self-referential message that you were offering.

Thanks for trying.

Peace

- Papa

Harold Jarche, on April 7th, 2013 at 10:27 am Said:

I liked it, especially the aspect of the Internet undoing both medium & message characteristics.

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