Eric McLuhan

By lralon

Eric McLuhan and Figure/Ground Communications.
Dr. McLuhan was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 1st, 2010.

Dr. Eric McLuhan is an internationally-known lecturer on communication and media, the son of Herbert Marshall McLuhan. He has over 30 years of teaching experience in subjects ranging from high-speed reading techniques to English literature, media, and communication theory. He has taught at many colleges and universities in both the United States and Canada. He has published articles in magazines and professional journals since 1964 on media, perception, and literature. He co-authored City as Classroom (Irwin, 1977), with Marshall McLuhan and Kathryn (Hutchon) Kawasaki, and assisted McLuhan with research and writing of The Medium is the Massage, War and Peace in the Global Village, Culture is Our Business, From Cliché to Archetype, Take Today: The Executive as Drop-Out, and most notably, Laws of Media: The New Science (University of Toronto Press, 1988). In this interview with Figure/Ground Communications, he focuses primarily on the genesis of Laws of Media: The New Science.

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