Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is Marshall McLuhan’s influential 1964 book that explores how different communication technologies shape human perception, culture, and society.
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| Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18086130 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Context triple: [Marshall McLuhan, notableWork, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man]
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" is a seminal work of media criticism that argues mainstream news outlets serve elite interests by shaping and filtering information to manufacture public consent for prevailing power structures.
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan is a critical study by Sidney Finkelstein that analyzes and challenges the media theories of Marshall McLuhan.
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 philosophical and political critique by Guy Debord that analyzes modern consumer capitalism as a world of mediated images replacing direct social relations.
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The Process and Effects of Mass Communication
The Process and Effects of Mass Communication is a foundational scholarly work in communication studies that systematically examines how mass media operate, influence audiences, and shape society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Target entity description: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is Marshall McLuhan’s influential 1964 book that explores how different communication technologies shape human perception, culture, and society.
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A.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" is a seminal work of media criticism that argues mainstream news outlets serve elite interests by shaping and filtering information to manufacture public consent for prevailing power structures.
-
B.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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C.
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan is a critical study by Sidney Finkelstein that analyzes and challenges the media theories of Marshall McLuhan.
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D.
The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 philosophical and political critique by Guy Debord that analyzes modern consumer capitalism as a world of mediated images replacing direct social relations.
-
E.
The Process and Effects of Mass Communication
The Process and Effects of Mass Communication is a foundational scholarly work in communication studies that systematically examines how mass media operate, influence audiences, and shape society.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.