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 n...

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.

作者莱文森，“数字时代的麦克卢汉”，网络教育先驱，麦克卢汉思想的发扬光大者。代表作为《软性的刀刃》、《思想无羁》、《学习赛博空间》。其科幻作品曾获雨果奖、星云奖和斯特津奖。现任纽约福德汉姆大学教授和“联合教育”网络教育公司总裁。

译者简介

何道宽，英语教授，政治津贴专家，中国跨文化交际研究会副会长，从事文化学、人类学、传播学20年，著译逾350万字。代表作有《创意导游》、《思维的训练》、《裸猿》、《文化树》、《超越文化》、《文化在外语教学中的地位》、《中国文化深层结构中崇“二”的心理定热》、《理解媒介》、《麦克卢汉精粹》、《媒介即是文化——麦克卢汉媒介思想述评》、《麦克卢汉在中国》等。