Marshall McLuhan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Template:Post-nominals (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher of communication theory and a public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.McLuhan is known for coining the expressions the medium is the message and the global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. Although he was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, his influence began to wane in the early 1970s. In the years after his death, he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles. With the arrival of the internet, however, interest in his work and perspective has renewed.
University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, University of Manitoba
Nationality
Canadian
Spouse
Corinne Lewis
Children
Eric McLuhan, Teri C. McLuhan, Michael McLuhan, Mary McLuhan, Elizabeth McLuhan, Stephanie McLuhan
Parents
Herbert Ernest McLuhan, Elsie Naomi McLuhan
Siblings
Maurice McLuhan
Awards
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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His well-known quote: "The medium is the message."
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Quote
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[on Pierre Trudeau, 1972] He is an actor, both emperor and clown. The clown is really the emperor's PR man who keeps him in touch with the world that the emperor cannot reach. The clown interprets the emperor to his court or the public and indicates their mood. He tests the emperor's mood by teasing him, and in turn interpreting the whims of the crowd to the emperor. I've never heard of a politician who could fill both roles. Trudeau is unique.
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Canadian politicians are faced with a serious 'drop-out' problem. They're still talking, but fewer people are bothering to listen. The successor to politics will be propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but the impact of the whole technology of the times. So politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favour of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.
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The new human occupation of the electronic age has become surveillance. CIA-style espionage is now the total human activity. Whether you call it audience rating, consumer surveys and so on - all men are now engaged as hunters of espionage.. Espionage at the speed of light will become the biggest business in the world.. But the CIA and the FBI are really old hat using old hardware by comparison to what's coming, in which everybody earns pocket money by watching his own mom and dad or his brothers and sisters..The possibilities are unlimited. When anybody can rip off a few million by pressing a couple of buttons on a computer, the need for being watched gets bigger and bigger.
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[on employment in the future] People tend to acquire multiple jobs. And with the computer at home, the cottage economy returns via the computer terminal at home. The idea of going out to work becomes obsolete. And therefore the car will tend to be used only as an entertainment medium.
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[Charlie Chaplin as a metaphor] He found himself isolated and he became the lonely little tramp. His gripe against America was that it was so American. He never took his camera inside an American home, not once. Because when Americans go home they change from one hemisphere to another. They cease to be extroverts: they become introvert and ordinary. But the moment they step outside their homes they go out to fight, fight, fight.
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There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvelous resources.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
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Fact
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He was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on June 26, 1970 for his contribution to the understanding of the relationships between media and society in Canada.
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Coined the term 'Global Village'
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He was a Canadian scholar famous for his breakthrough ideas about communications and the media typified by his famous phrase, "The media is the message."
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Third Walker
1978
Judge (voice)
Annie Hall
1977
Marshall McLuhan
La télévision est là
1967
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Life and Times
1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
The David Frost Show
1972
TV Series
Himself
Contrasts
1967
TV Series
Himself
Our World
1967
TV Movie documentary
Himself
NBC Experiment in Television
1967
TV Series
Himself
Telescope
1967
TV Series documentary
Himself
Today
1966
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Story of the National Lampoon
$16 Million
