Week Fourteen: McLuhan and Media Future

This week we are considering the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and we will be reading The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, an anthology of quotes from McLuhan in the form of a contemporary illuminated manuscript.  McLuhan was a great popularizer of media studies and a number of his ideas still have current application and interest. After you read The Medium is the Massage, I would like you to create your own illuminated page that embodies one of your own observations about media. Save it as a .png or .gif (if it has motion). After you create your page, please either post the page on Google docs or send it to me via email, 

dsteilin@c.ringling.edu

There are a number of works by McLuhan on the course resource page, make sure you are reading the correct text, the full title is The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.

Here is a link to a slideshow of extra pages made by this class to add to McLuhan's work.

During class this week, I will give a short talk on McLuhan's ideas and their importance in the history of media theory. We also will discuss the final grade process.