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«Understanding Media» is Marshall McLuhan's essay on media and society, published by Routledge in paperback (400 pages, in English).
McLuhan examines how radio, television, photography, film and other media transform perception and social organisation. His thesis is that the medium of communication, more than the content, is the main agent of cultural change: each technology reorganises human experience.
Work originally published in 1964; this edition in the Routledge Classics series was published in 2005.
For students and readers of philosophy, communication and cultural studies interested in how media shape society.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as "the father of media studies".
