One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...

Google’s Doodle have a fondness for celebrating legendary figures, but today’s person of interest feels more appropriate for the venue than most. The company hails Canadian professor, philosopher, and ...

Marshall McLuhan envisioned the internet decades before it was invented — that’s the popular position, anyway. He never witnessed the web, but McLuhan did anticipate its coming in a way few would, ...

Nick Ripatrazone’s new book on Marshall McLuhan, Digital Communion, arrived in my mailbox the day I presented a play about Marshall McLuhan at a conference on the Catholic imagination in Dallas, Tex.

This being McLuhan Week at the Lab, we’ve shared a couple essays looking back on the media theorist’s legacy. So it’s only appropriate that we dive into the Nieman Foundation archives to see how ...

How big was Marshall McLuhan in the late 1960s? The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed the University of Toronto professor “the hottest academic property around,” and the line “Marshall McLuhan, whatcha ...

Google Doodle has never missed honouring any legendary figure and thus today, that is on 21st July 2017, it is honouring Marshall McLuhan on his 106th birthday. Celebrating his birthday through Google ...

If the medium is the message, what does pandemic-era video conferencing tell us? In the 1999 film, Up In the Air, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a consultant whose job is to fly around the country ...

Recently a BBC researcher joined VRChat, an app available via Facebook's Meta Quest headset — and saw harassment and a rape threat. "Horrible. It was strange. It felt like it was happening to me." The ...

“I knew going into it that this wasn’t going to be a straight biography,” says Douglas Coupland about his new study of Marshall McLuhan. What the Vancouver-based author has concocted instead is a ...