Marshall Mcluhan's tetrad of media effects.
Culture Is our Business Marshall Mcluhan.
In his 1970 book Culture Is our Business, Marshall Mcluhan examined American civilization through advertising.
That business failed when World War I broke out, and Mcluhan's father enlisted in the Canadian army.
When World War I broke out, the business failed, and Mcluhan's father enlisted in the Canadian army.
The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall Mcluhan in 1964, while the term media ecology was
first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968.
Mcluhan argues that media act as extensions of the human
senses in each era, and communication technology is the primary cause of social change.
Mcluhan claims that it is the speed of electronic media
which allow us some action and reaction to global issues at the same rapid as face to face communication.
Mcluhan said:“The next medium, whatever it is- it
may be the extension of consciousness- will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form.”.
Just as intellectuals Daniel Boorstin, Marshall Mcluhan and Guy Debord were starting to level
critiques against this media environment, Mad was doing the same- but in a way that was widely accessible, proudly idiotic and surprisingly sophisticated.