TAG: mcluhan
McLuhan would blow hot and cool about today's internet
"The internet doesn't really fit into McLuhan's "hot" and "cool" dichotomy. It encourages participation but it also sucks up our attention and dominates our senses."
"If you control what is acceptable to say, to print, to show, you control the ability of people to form opinion, especially dissenting opinion."
Tags: mcluhan postmodernism media language posted culture
Plasticbag.org: "The weblog becomes and extension of yourself. A suit you wear, if you will. It's like you're controlling a whole prosthetic version of yourself."
Tags: blogs postmodernism culture technology mcluhan posted