The Medium is the Message |
Friday Aug 21 2009
By Jim Selman | BioForty-five years ago Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message”. I wonder what he would have made of today’s media-on-steroids. Someone sent me a fascinating YouTube piece called “Social Media in Plain English” , which was followed up with a dramatic piece on the extraordinary impact of all that is going on in the Social Media Revolution. It includes a new term I had never seen before: socialnomics. It’s getting easier and easier to feel ignorant and out of touch. The general consensus is that the phenomenon of social networking/social media is as potentially revolutionary as the Industrial Revolution.[Read More]
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