A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Mathematics and the numerous non-verbal coding devices of science, today constitute the languages which support the structures of radio, TV, and the new visual culture of our age. With the advent of these rivals to verbal languages we can easily discern how traditional vernaculars are themselves the great mass media, that is, specialized frames and vehicles of experience.
“A Historical Approach to the Media” (1955), p 107
Year: 1955
Chapter: Language
Compiled by William Kuhns
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