Talk:The medium is the message

message: What's the deal with the free variation between 'message' and 'massage'? Christian Campbell 18:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Spelling]

message: "The media are the message" is a phrase meaning that the generic form of media is more important than any "meaning" or "content" that the media conveys.  For McLuhan, the content of media is irrelevant.  The form of the medium itself is what changes our consciousness.  The previously struck text grossly misrepresents what McLuhan meant.  See here for much better explanation: What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?
You may have a point, but please don't go scribbling all over the subject page. If you disagree, then why not re-write this article?
Wompom 14:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disagreement 

message: Recent  revisions to this page read like a term paper, with jargon, buzzwords, and analysis that is inappropriate and would be incomprehensible to the layman: the audience of an encyclopedia.   McLuhan's writings  themselves were not always easily accessible to newcomers: the point of having this article here is to make it clearer to someone who knows nothing of McLuhan's work, not a media theorist or communications student him or herself.  "The medium is the message" is one his his greatest observations - and with examples is easily understood by people, transforming the way they look at media - our job here is to try to facilitate that  understanding.  Hence, I replaced the jargon-y term paper with something more comprehensible and concrete, taken from the McLuhan article, with some tweaking and additions.  The previous edits also had incorrect and/or missing bibliographic details, now corrected; also had some language that was lifted directly from the source, which is plagiarism even if it is cited, unless it is clearly indicated that it is a quote which this was not - also corrected this. Tvoz |talk 20:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a term paper

message: Along with probably the majority of Canadians I relate to this article and derive personal meaning from it due seeing the Heritage Minute for  this idea. I'm believe a link (http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10226) would be helpful for people to be able to access in the external links. I am not sure if this is type of resource is considered appropriate, however, - if it's not that's pretty ironic - and am leaving the decision to add this up to someone more familiar with Wikipedia and the content.142.68.198.37 (talk) 13:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Heritage Minute

message: I've reverted "Originally The Medium is the Massage" as the introduction states that that phrase came from a later book by McLuhan (published in 1967).Blakkandekka (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Message/Massage

message: I rearranged paragraphs, bringing it back closer to where it was last year, because the article discussed the significance of the phrase before explaining its meaning. I think a reader first wants to know the simplest case of what McLuhan meant, then perhaps some elaboration of the intricacies, and then the broader significance of it. If you disagree, well, that's why we have a Revert button. dweinberger (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Order

message: The statement, "The phrase was introduced in his most widely known book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964," is fallacious.  McLuhan used "the medium is the message," as early as 1959.  See the Yale Book of Quotations for a 1960 occurrence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.132.173.192 (talk) 14:17, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Phrase 

message: I would like to read some more examples of specific types of media and how they influence people's reception. The article mentions movies. What about radio, television, social media? What is it specifically about them that differentiates them from other media?
--37.201.97.178 (talk) 17:26, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Examples 

message: There weren't any major grammar issues. However, I did find one incomplete sentence. So, I removed the period prior to the sentence starting and made the sentence complete.
-Kaitlyn.Kelly (talk) 19:33, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar