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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian literary scholar and theorist of communication at the University of Toronto. In The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media he argued that the forms of media shape societies more than their content, coining the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village'. He became one of the best-known intellectuals of the 1960s.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Marshall McLuhan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/marshall-mcluhan
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