When the movies were new, ads used to be injected on slides. As the movies became more and more an indispensable service environment ads on the show or in show-time, became distasteful and unwelcome. The quantitative fact is important since, if the user is the content, then any other user of the medium will appear as an interloper.
“Putting on the Media” (1971), p 9
Year: 1971
Chapter:
User as Content
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan