Lectures & Panels

The End of Polite Society

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1968
The Way It Is
Moderator: Robert Fulford (Canadian journalist)
Panel: Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm Muggeridge (British TV talk-show host), and Norman Mailer (American writer).

Concepts

• The electric age is the dawn of the greatest of all human ages
• The end of polite society

The Communications Revolution

Ohio State University 1960
Moderator: Gilbert Seldes (American cultural critic)
Panel: Marshall McLuhan, Edgar Dale, Keith Tyler

Concepts

• Nature of the new media
• TV is a cool medium
• TV is a depth medium
• Old versus new assumptions

Man and Media

York University 1977
Public Lecture
Marshall McLuhan

Concepts

• Laws of the media

Living in an Acoustic World

University of South Florida 1970
Public Lecture
Marshall McLuhan

Concepts

• From a visual to an acoustic world
• Private identity
• Transformation theory of communication
• New journalism versus the old
• The new politics
• Role-playing versus specialization
• The end of secrecy
• Knowledge creates ignorance
• The medium is the message
• Media ecology
• Laws of the media