In Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan imparts his famous maxim, “the
In Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan imparts his famous maxim, “the medium is the message”. For McLuhan the terms media and technology are interchangeable and claims that their impact on our lives must be judged not by the content they disseminate but by the nature of the medium itself. In this book the term ‘moral panic’ is first given an academic treatment leading to its intellectual development through the 60’s and 70’s, straight into the 1990s called “the age of the moral panic” by American sociologists Kenneth Thompson. -- source link
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