Understanding Media

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    By Marshall McLuhan

    When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

  • Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy
    By Dominic Boyer

    Why do we understand media the way we do? In their simplest forms, media are means of communication and instruments of human creativity. But on another level, media are powerful...

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    By Marshall McLuhan

    When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of...

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    By Marshall McLuhan

    In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media, Harper's editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan's work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this ...

  • Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity
    By David Hesmondhalgh, Jessica Evans

    This title provides an innovative introduction to the study of the media, focusing on celebrity culture.

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    By Marshall McLuhan

    Discusses the mental and physical changes that take place during puberty.