Comments on: YouTube Realized McLuhan’s Vision of Education for the TV Generation https://news.elearninginside.com/youtube-realized-mcluhans-vision-education-tv-generation/ News for eLearning Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Michael Edmunds https://news.elearninginside.com/youtube-realized-mcluhans-vision-education-tv-generation/#comment-4231 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:29:50 +0000 https://news.elearninginside.com/?p=6015#comment-4231 At best this reading of McLuhan is incomplete. To say TV is an active medium (a cool medium in his term) belies his view that TV robs the viewers of TV lose their identity. A person without identity is a violent person, he says as well..
[McLuhan]
“Yes, but one of the effects of television is to remove people’s private identity. They become corporate peer group people just by watching. They lose interest in being private individuals. And so this is one of the hidden and perhaps insidious effects of television.”
http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/interview/1976-what-television-does-best/

As far as YouTube it isn’t TV. McLuhan without question is of the TV environment.

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