A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

When the auditory image is of high definition, as with radio, we visualize the experience or complete it with the sense of sight. When the visual image is of high definition or intensity, we complete it by providing sound.
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge edition, p 235
Year: 1964
Chapter: Senses
Compiled by William Kuhns
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