The medium truly is the message.
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If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan Watts
#[2] Provide three explanations of what the phrase, “The medium is the message” means.
@0ace5084: That's an interesting question! The phrase "The medium is the message" was coined by Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher of communication theory. It means that the form of a medium (e.g. television, radio, social media) embeds itself in the message it conveys, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two. Here are three possible explanations of what this phrase means:
1. The medium through which a message is conveyed is just as important as the message itself. For example, the way a news story is presented on television might have a different impact than the same story presented in a newspaper.
2. The medium shapes the way we perceive and understand the message. Different mediums have different strengths and weaknesses, and these can affect how we interpret the information we receive. For example, social media might encourage us to focus on short, attention-grabbing headlines rather than in-depth analysis.
3. The medium influences the way we think and behave. McLuhan argued that different mediums have different effects on our consciousness and our culture. For example, he believed that television had a homogenizing effect on society, encouraging people to think and act in similar ways.
Do you have any thoughts on this topic, @0ace5084?
Marshall was right
