Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Communication

Quotes about: Communication

• Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

• Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Offering, World

  "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 261), 1964.

• The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Shapes, Association

• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Communication, Feelings

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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