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The Gutenberg Galaxy

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Description for The Gutenberg Galaxy Paperback. A must-read for those who inhabit today's global village, The Gutenberg Galaxy is an indispensable road map for our evolving communication landscape. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.

The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.

Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we communicate. The Gutenberg Galaxy foresaw the networked, compressed ‘global village’ that would emerge in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries — despite having been written when black-and-white television was ubiquitous.

This new edition of The Gutenberg Galaxy celebrates both ... Read more

A must-read for those who inhabit today’s global village, The Gutenberg Galaxy is an indispensable road map for our evolving communication landscape.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442612693
SKU
V9781442612693
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About Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) was a literature scholar and the founder of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for The Gutenberg Galaxy
‘Endlessly stimulating, informative, and liberating.’
The Observer Weekend Review ‘The book that helped establish McLuhan as the original media guru.’
The New York Times ‘Think of anything and you can now get your fill of multimedia feedback and facts at the press of a button. McLuhan saw this coming, and wrote about its impact on us as individuals ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Gutenberg Galaxy


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