strypey, 22 days ago to fediverse

Marshall McLuhan wrote books and taught students about his theories of media for decades, and is widely known as "as the father of modern media studies";

https://ama-toronto.com/inductees/marshall-mcluhan/

Phrases he coined are so quoted they've become cliches; like "the global village", and most famously "the medium is the message".

What is the message of the fediverse as a medium?

#MarshallMcLuhan #MediaStudies #fediverse

strypey, 3 months ago to Podcast

#CoryDoctorow explains the process of platform enshittification in 10 minutes or less. Starts at 5:35:

'Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference'

https://craphound.com/news/2024/02/05/my-marshall-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-from-berlins-transmediale-conference/

#podcast #MarshallMcLuhan #enshittification #transmediale

pluralistic, 4 months ago to berlin

Last night, I gave the annual #MarshallMcLuhan lecture at the #transmediale festival in #Berlin. The event was sold out and while there's a video that'll be posted soon, they couldn't get a streaming setup installed in the Canadian embassy, where the talk was held:

https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

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miksimum, 6 months ago to random

Looking for poetry in the space between McLuhanian probes and Alan Sokalian nonsense.

#MarshallMcLuhan #AlanSokal

gotofritz, 9 months ago to random

You don't hear much talk of #MarshallMcLuhan these days

augustocc, 10 months ago to random Portuguese

“A melhor forma de prever o futuro é criá-lo”
Peter F. Drucker

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

I saw a toot about how Mastodon isn’t a suitable network for social movements.. posted on a social network with 8 million accounts that has no adverts, is volunteer run, is open source, has no owner and is end to end free of big technology companies.