(Hardback)

At the time of Marshall McLuhan's death in 1980, his was a major voice in our understanding on media and society. While the author dismisses McLuhan's basic theory that the medium is the message, he points to McLuhan's importance, and argues for a re-examination of McLuhan as an artist and a poet.

(Hardback)

This thought-provoking book identifies the limits of the field of information science, and thus raises very real problems of the discipline in the context of people using, misusing, and abusing information. In particular, he highlights problems of information scientists using information to study information.