McLuhan

American  

[muh-kloo-uhn] / məˈklu ən /

noun

1. Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.

---

McLuhan British  

/ məˈkluːən /

noun

1. ( Herbert ) Marshall . 1911–80, Canadian author of works analysing the mass media, including Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Message (1967)

---

Example Sentences

McLuhan likened our contemporary ills to the often misunderstood myth of Narcissus.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

“In terms of McLuhan, it isn’t a cool medium, it becomes a hot medium.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

Communication theorist Marshall McLuhan famously observed that “the medium is the message,” challenging us go beyond the awe phase of new technology and ask questions about its social effects.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023

In March 1969, Canadian philosopher and media theory expert Marshall McLuhan, in an interview with Playboy magazine, no less, warned us about the "numbing" sense that instantaneous transmission of information brings to our culture.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2023

I remember when McLuhan arrived, at the end of the sixties, with his concept of 'global village' basing itself on television and telephone, and he was predicting data exchange between computers.

From A Short History of EBooks by Lebert, Marie