Herbert Marshall McLuhan The medium is the message 1911 - 1980 are always inside the problem, not out side
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 21, 1911.
University of Manitoba: B. A., 1932; M. A., 1934. Cambridge University: B. A., 1936; M. A., 1939; Ph. D., 1942.
Taught at University of Wisconsin (Madison): 1936-1937. Taught at St. Louis University: 1937-1944. Taught at Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario): 1944-1946. Taught at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto: 1946-1979. Full professor: 1952.
Married Corinne Keller Lewis of Fort Worth, Texas: 1939.
Chairman of Ford Foundation Seminar on Culture and Communication: 1953-1955.
Co-Editor of Explorations magazine: 1954-1959.
Director of Project in Understanding New Media for National Association of Educational Broadcasters and U. S. Office of Education: 1959-1960.
Appointed in 1963 by the President of the University of Toronto to create a new Centre for Culture and Technology, to study the psychic and social consequences of technologies and media.
