# Marshall McLuhan **Domain:** Media Theory / Communication **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Understanding Media]], [[The Medium Is the Massage]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]] --- ## Definition Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) was a Canadian media theorist who argued that media reshape perception and social organization independently of the particular content they carry. ## Corpus Context [[Understanding Media]] and [[The Medium Is the Massage]] supply the corpus with a grammar for treating houses, screens, vehicles and networks as extensions of the human sensorium. ## Relationships [[Understanding Media]], [[The Medium Is the Massage]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]