McLuhan and the Toronto School of Communication

Derrick De kerckhove
Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 14, No 4 (1989)

Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye, C.C., B.A., M.A. (Oxon), LL.D., D.D., D.Litt., D. de l'U, L.H.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.C., was born on 14 July 1912, in Sherbrooke, Quebec,...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt

Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (Jacky as she preferred to be known to her friends) was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on 25 May 1905, as...

Edmund Carpenter

Edmund Carpenter, an archaeologist and anthropologist who, impatient with traditional boundaries between disciplines, did groundbreaking work in anthropological filmmaking and ethnomusicology and, with his...

Harold Innis

Harold Adams Innis was born on November 5, 1894, in Otterville, Ontario. Graduating from McMaster University just prior to the First World War, Innis...

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911, to Methodist parents in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1916, the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where McLuhan...

Walter Ong

Known for his work in Renaissance literature, intellectual history, and the evolution of consciousness, Walter J. Ong, S.J., was a Jesuit, a scholar, and...

The Ong Center

The Walter J. Ong, S.J., Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies has a two-fold mission: to promote interdisciplinary research in the Humanities at...

Northrop Frye Centre

Part of Victoria College at the University of Toronto, the Northrop Frye Centre facilitates and encourages undergraduate research, engages in the international exchange of humanist scholarship,...

The Toronto School of Communication Theory

While never formally recognized as a school of thought in its time, the work of a number of University of Toronto scholars over several...
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