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Information

A physical quantity, once someone thought to measure it.

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10:45

Manufacturing Consent

It doesn’t expose bias — it maps the machinery that makes bias structural, inevitable, and invisible.
9:34

Global village

McLuhan’s 'global village' isn’t about connection—it’s about the illusion of shared ground in an electronically stitched world.
10:40

Knowledge economy

The knowledge economy isn’t about what we know—it’s about who owns the right to decide what counts as knowledge.
9:28

Journalism

Journalism is not truth-telling. It is the institutionalised, contested, and increasingly unstable practice of verification.
10:21

Marshall McLuhan

He didn’t predict the internet—he predicted how it would rewire attention, and he got the wiring right.
9:04

Publishing

Publishing isn’t about books—it’s about who decides what the public sees, hears, and reads.