http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/09/understanding-media/ Writng, arts, media, books, and software Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/09/understanding-media/#comment-18808 mantex Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:10:11 +0000 http://www.mantex.co.uk/?p=2388#comment-18808 Yes - it is a little odd in places. But you have to remember that McLuhan was writing about what we now call 'media studies' long before anyone else had even noticed media existed. Yes – it is a little odd in places. But you have to remember that McLuhan was writing about what we now call ‘media studies’ long before anyone else had even noticed media existed.

]]> http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/09/understanding-media/#comment-18602 Media Books Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:05:40 +0000 http://www.mantex.co.uk/?p=2388#comment-18602 This is all round a good book. I have used it during my media studies degree. It is a bit old but no doubt a classic and amazingly percipient, but I find some of the analogies and references rather contrived and stretched. It's oddly organised, too, as though written for hypertext thirty years before its time. Hard work, but always thought-provoking, and as relevant now (perhaps more so) than when written. This is all round a good book. I have used it during my media studies degree. It is a bit old but no doubt a classic and amazingly percipient, but I find some of the analogies and references rather contrived and stretched. It’s oddly organised, too, as though written for hypertext thirty years before its time. Hard work, but always thought-provoking, and as relevant now (perhaps more so) than when written.

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