Talk:The medium is the message

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What's the deal with the free variation between 'message' and 'massage'? Christian Campbell 18:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disagreement

"The media are the message" is a phrase meaning that the generic form of media is more important than any "meaning" or "content" that the media conveys. For McLuhan, the content of media is irrelevant. The form of the medium itself is what changes our consciousness. The previously struck text grossly misrepresents what McLuhan meant. See here for much better explanation: What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?

You may have a point, but please don't go scribbling all over the subject page. If you disagree, then why not re-write this article? Wompom 14:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

the last entry in the faq located here [1], also has a good explanation in agreement with the previous person's edit. 65.6.133.168 01:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not a term paper

Recent revisions to this page read like a term paper, with jargon, buzzwords, and analysis that is inappropriate and would be incomprehensible to the layman: the audience of an encyclopedia. McLuhan's writings themselves were not always easily accessible to newcomers: the point of having this article here is to make it clearer to someone who knows nothing of McLuhan's work, not a media theorist or communications student him or herself. "The medium is the message" is one his his greatest observations - and with examples is easily understood by people, transforming the way they look at media - our job here is to try to facilitate that understanding. Hence, I replaced the jargon-y term paper with something more comprehensible and concrete, taken from the McLuhan article, with some tweaking and additions. The previous edits also had incorrect and/or missing bibliographic details, now corrected; also had some language that was lifted directly from the source, which is plagiarism even if it is cited, unless it is clearly indicated that it is a quote which this was not - also corrected this. Tvoz |talk 20:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heritage Minute

Along with probably the majority of Canadians I relate to this article and derive personal meaning from it due seeing the Heritage Minute for this idea. I'm believe a link (http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10226) would be helpful for people to be able to access in the external links. I am not sure if this is type of resource is considered appropriate, however, - if it's not that's pretty ironic - and am leaving the decision to add this up to someone more familiar with Wikipedia and the content.142.68.198.37 (talk) 13:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)