{"id":611,"date":"2014-11-20T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:20:03","slug":"mcluhans-1960-report-on-project-in-understanding-new-media-norm-friesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/mcluhans-1960-report-on-project-in-understanding-new-media-norm-friesen\/","title":{"rendered":"McLuhan's 1960 Report on Project in Understanding New Media | Norm Friesen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the cryptic note at the top right (on p. 2), McLuhan writes to Harley Parker, with whom he later co-authored Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (1968) and Counterblast (1969). Parker also appears with McLuhan in the 28 min 1969 film Picnic in Space, directed by Bruce Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>This text reflects McLuhan's then-coalescing thought as it relates to both education and to multiple media forms; and the text serves as relatively direct and clearly-written precursor for the 1964 Understanding Media.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of this report is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nfriesen\/files\/2014\/11\/McLuhanRoPiUNM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">7.5 Mb PDF file<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nfriesen\/2014\/11\/18\/mcluhans-1960-report-on-project-in-understanding-new-media\/\">McLuhan's 1960 Report on Project in Understanding New Media | Norm Friesen<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2HwmdSSrvfQ?rel=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cryptic note at the top right (on p. 2), McLuhan writes to Harley Parker, with whom he later co-authored Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (1968) and Counterblast (1969). Parker also appears with McLuhan in the 28 min 1969 film Picnic in Space, directed by Bruce Bacon. This text reflects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/mcluhans-1960-report-on-project-in-understanding-new-media-norm-friesen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"McLuhan's 1960 Report on Project in Understanding New Media | Norm Friesen\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[352,190,353,351,354],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-field","tag-harley-parker","tag-marshall-mcluhan","tag-norm-friesen","tag-picnic-in-space","tag-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}