Who famously described his own book as a footnote to Innis’s observations?
Marshall McLuhan
Eric Havelock
Edmund Snow Carpenter
Donald Creighton
Answer
Marshall McLuhan famously described his own book as a footnote to Innis’s observations, because he believed that Innis’s work had laid the groundwork for his own theories of media and communication. Innis was a Canadian scholar who wrote extensively about the role of communication in society, and he argued that the development of new media technologies had a profound impact on human culture and society.
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