A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Since the advent of TV, the comic book has gone into a decline. It is, perhaps, obvious enough that if a cool medium involves the viewer a great deal, a hot medium will not. It may contradict popular ideas to say that typography as a hot medium involves the reader much less than did manuscript, or to point out that the comic book and TV as cool media involve the user, as maker and participant, a great deal.
Understanding Media, (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 161
Year: 1964
Compiled by William Kuhns
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