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Markus Lahtinen. Foto

Markus Lahtinen

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Markus Lahtinen. Foto

The Medium is the Message, or the Mediating Conditions for Informing Systems

Author

  • Markus Lahtinen

Summary, in English

In this paper, the works of communication theorist Marshall McLuhan will be laid out in a socio-technical tradition of thoughts. Noted for coining the term ‘the global village’, another well-recognized adage of McLuhan is ‘the medium is the message’. Adapting the perspective of viewing information systems essentially as a language and meaning environment, the set of ideas offered by McLuhan offers a promising way to think about the relationship between media, meaning and language. Inspired by his work, I explore the media-specific qualities of two different media associated with higher education – traditional classroom and the rising online format.

Department/s

  • Department of Informatics

Publishing year

2020-12-28

Language

English

Pages

101-109

Publication/Series

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volume

2789

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • McLuhan
  • socio-technology
  • media
  • education
  • Information Systems

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1613-0073