Marshall McLuhan Biography

Marshall McLuhan biography

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NAME: Marshall McLuhan
OCCUPATION: Educator, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: July 21, 1911
DEATH DATE: December 31, 1980
EDUCATION: University of Manitoba
PLACE OF BIRTH: Edmonton, Canada
PLACE OF DEATH: Toronto, Canada
Full Name: Herbert Marshall McLuhan

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Famous for his aphorism, "the medium is the message," communications theorist Marshall McLuhan was an influential educator during the 20th century.

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Born in Canada in 1911, University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan became one of the most influential communications theorists of the 20th century. Famous for his aphorism, "the medium is the message," he held that media shapes the way we think and that the printed book was fated to disappear.