Comments on: Form and Content http://dontexplain.com/2008/05/form-and-content/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: clifford http://dontexplain.com/2008/05/form-and-content/comment-page-1/#comment-22 clifford Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-22 decoupling form from content is wesch's way of explaining, at least in part, the phenomenon of web 2.0. how else might web 2.0 be explained? how would you explain it? Marshall McLuhan is famous for stating the “medium is the message,” suggesting that content is somehow less important than the medium—or that the medium is the more interesting of the two. I wonder how he would explain web 2.0? Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man decoupling form from content is wesch’s way of explaining, at least in part, the phenomenon of web 2.0. how else might web 2.0 be explained? how would you explain it?

Marshall McLuhan is famous for stating the “medium is the message,” suggesting that content is somehow less important than the medium—or that the medium is the more interesting of the two. I wonder how he would explain web 2.0?

Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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