Round 2: Tossup 8

A book by this theorist begins by analyzing the contentless “environment” of a light bulb. This theorist claimed that privacy only existed in the early modern period, but we still value it since “we look at the present through a rear-view mirror.” This theorist argued that in the electronic age, everyone is concerned with everyone else’s business in a “global village.” (10[2])This author of The Gutenberg (10[1])Galaxy described media (10[1])that require viewers to expend low or high levels of effort as “hot” and “cool” in a book that argues that the form of a medium is more important than its content. (10[1])For 10 points, what Canadian (10[1])“father of media studies” (10[1])claimed “the medium is the message?” ■END■ (0[2])

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