Digital McLuhan

Digital McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age. "Paul Levinson completes McLuhan's pioneering work. Read this book if you want to decipher life on the screen." --Kevin Kelly, Wired "Digital McLuhan presents McLuhan in a new light, [for] a generation grappling with the transforming effects of cyberspace, cell phones and virtual reality." -- The New York Times "An extremely useful and thought-provoking book." --Irish Times "An excellent exposition of McLuhan's key ideas and their relevance to understanding new media." --New Statesman "A very snappy little book. Amazingly well-researched, well-written, and above all else, well-educated piece of work." --Communication Booknotes Quarterly Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC.  His nonfiction books, including  The Soft Edge  (1997),  Digital McLuhan  (1999),  Realspace  (2003),  Cellphone  (2004), and  New New Media  (2009; 2nd edition, 2012),  have been translated into ten languages.  His science fiction novels include  T he Silk Code  (winner of Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, author's cut ebook 2012),  Borrowed Tides  (2001),  The Consciousness Plague  (2002),  The Pixel Eye  (2003),  The Plot To Save Socrates  (2006, 2012), and  Unburning Alexandria  (2013) - the last two of which are historical as well as science fiction.  He appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News,  and numerous TV and radio programs.  His 1972 LP,  Twice Upon a Rhyme , was re-issued in 2010.  He reviews  television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog and Starpulse , and was listed in  The Chronicle of Higher Education 's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009.