{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Selfie and Marshall McLuhan","description":"Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 93, in which I explore how Marshall McLuhan's "tetrad" or four laws of media, first publicly propounded in the mid-late 1970s, can explain the "selfie" which didn't exist until a few years ago and is so vividly in evidence today.\r\n \r\nThis is the photograph which instigated this train of thought - thanks to Ian Bogost for pushing it out of the station.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nYou might also enjoy this podcast episode: Marshall McLuhan and the Kindle.  See also Tetrad on Eyeglasses Fliiping into Google Glass and Photography Flips into Snapchat.\r\nmore about McLuhan\r\n\r\n ","author_name":"Light On Light Through","author_url":"http:\/\/paullev.libsyn.com","html":"