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The medium is often the message

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The famous Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message. This oft-repeated line summarises McLuhan’s view that how a message is conveyed dramatically affects how it reaches and resonates with an audience and what the substance of the message itself ultimately is.

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Canadian party politics, political culture, Irish politics, and the political thought of Jonathan Swift.
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