Mr Media's Blog
Analysis and observations about Mass Media and Pop Culture
McLuhan
Today’s Connectivity: One Viewer at a Time
By Mike Gange I often do play-by-play for UNB hockey games, sometimes on the television and sometimes on the Internet. The nature of the mass media sports broadcasts is to spray out to as many viewers as possible, and pray that some viewers are interested in what you offer. The Internet broadcasts are much more … Continue reading
Proud as a Peacock
Review by Mike Gange Brought to You in Living Color by Marc Robinson Wiley, $77.50, 236 pages One of media guru Marshall McLuhan’s famous quotes says a fish does not recognize it is in water until the water changes. McLuhan’s colourful metaphor would very aptly apply to television today; we don’t realize how much the … Continue reading
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