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The key distinction between the thinking of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan is in how each perceives the societal shift from a totalizing mechanical technology (originating with the Gutenberg printing press) to an “electronic age” 1 in which communications are made instantaneous through electronic media, which McLuhan has comprising “the telegraph, radio, films, telephone, computer and television.”
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Khan, A. (2017). A Plea for Time in a State of Nature : Be Kind Rewind . In: Comedies of Nihilism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59894-9_7
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