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Marshall McLuhan  

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  • Marshall McLuhan (1911–80) was a Canadian English and media professor who spent the majority of his career at the University of Toronto. He has been called the “oracle of the electric age” and the “high priest of popcult” for his groundbreaking studies of media as they interact with language and environments. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; McLuhan, Marshall]

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