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Marshall McLuhan and virtuality /

Marshall Mcluhan's prophetic insights in the 1960s foreshadowed the post-modern conflagration of message and meaning which became the dominant concern of social theorists and media intellectuals throughout the 1990s. while many saw the rise and rise of technology as alienating people from peopl...

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Main Author: Horrocks, Christopher
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Icon Books, 2000.
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