Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Communication
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Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
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Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
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The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
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