Understanding media : the extensions of man /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Corte Madera, CA :
Gingko Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | Critical ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The medium is the message
- Media hot and cold
- Reversal of the overheated medium
- The gadget love: Narcissus as narcosis
- Hybrid energy: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Media as translators
- Challenge and collapse: The nemesis of creativity
- The spoken word: Flower of evil?
- The written word: An eye for an ear
- Roads and paper routes
- Number: Profile of the crowd
- Clothing: Our extended skin
- Housing: New look and new outlook
- Money: The poor man's credit card
- Clocks: The scent of time
- The print: How to dig it
- Comics: MAD vestibule to TV
- The printed work: Architect of nationalism
- Wheel, bicycle, and airplane
- The photograph: The brothel-without-walls
- Press: Government by news leak
- Motorcar: The mechanical bride
- Ads: Keeping upset with the Joneses
- Games: The extensions of man
- Telegraph: The social horomone
- The typewriter: Into the age of the Iron whim
- The telephone: Sounding brass or tinkling symbol?
- The phonograph: The toy that shrank the national chest
- Movies: The reel world
- Radio: The tribal drum
- Television: The timid giant
- Weapons: War of the icons
- Automation: Learning a living
- Appendix.