MANAMA, Bahrain -- I had a meeting in Bahrain, not far from where I live, on March 2, 2011, at about the midpoint of a month of street demonstrations that began with euphoria over Egypt and Tunisia's ...

In 1962, when the Internet was still no more than a paranoid glint in the eye of the U.S. department of defense, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "the global village." For more than two centuries ...

My daughter, who is in her senior year of high school, recently wrote an essay on Marshall McLuhan. She asked me to give my thoughts on McLuhan’s theories of media. To be honest, I hadn’t given ...

Recently a BBC researcher joined VRChat, an app available via Facebook's Meta Quest headset — and saw harassment and a rape threat. "Horrible. It was strange. It felt like it was happening to me." The ...

He can’t be reduced to a handful of pithy quotes, but McLuhan has something to say about our new world of frayed ends rather than neat endings. But writing, as it filled us with notions of our own ...