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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Marshall McLuhan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who is one of the founders of the study of media ecology and is today an honorary guru among technophiles. |
 | | Born in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan studied English at the University of Manitoba and Cambridge University. |
 | | After McLuhan's death, his former student and friend Walter J. Ong wrote what is arguably the most favorable assessment of McLuhan in print anywhere to this day: "McLuhan as Teacher: The Future Is a Thing of the Past," Journal of Communication 31 (1981): 129-35. |
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