Support the book on Kickstarter! A fundraising campaign has been launched for my next book, Counter-Digital Media Literacy, on Kickstarter. Support the book—join the cause! The idea of the book Counter-Digital Media Literacy is a survival guide for the digital age. We all… Read More ›
Fundraising campaign launches on Kickstarter on September 16—share, support! Writers usually show the product, not the process. But reading is fading, so I am trying to revive it by engaging readers with writing at earlier stages—and also to earn some… Read More ›
A review of Andrey Mir’s “The Digital Reversal.” By William Kuhns. From the upcoming issue of New Explorations. Studies in Culture and Communication. At first blush it sounds like a 21st century fairy tale: how at enough clicks of the “I like” thumb-ups icon, everything… Read More ›
Paul Levinson, a student of Neil Postman and a collaborator with Marshall McLuhan, became one of the first readers and critics of The Digital Reversal. Paul is the author of a number of books on media ecology and also a prominent… Read More ›
Media are the hardware of society, and culture is its software. Society follows the patterns set by media. If oral speech was the medium of orality and written speech was the medium of literacy, digital speech is the medium of… Read More ›
The future of the book is the blurb, said Marshall McLuhan. As the future arrives, this book is written in tweets—1,295 of them. Structured in thread-chapters, they explore and explain what media evolution has done to us. (An excerpt from… Read More ›
Global swarming may turn out to be more disastrous than global warming. Besides providing historical linearity and progress in social development, media also serve as a historical equalizer. An excerpt from Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s… Read More ›
A review of Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan by Tom Cooper (2025, Connected Editions*, with Preface by T. C. McLuhan and Foreword by Robert Logan; presale available on Amazon). Tom Cooper’s Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought… Read More ›
Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself. Viewing recorded speech meant seeing the “footprints” of thinking. A chapter from Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect. The… Read More ›
This is an appendix to my review of Michel Desmurget’s 2022 book Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children. At the end of the book, Desmurget suggests “Seven Fundamental Rules.” However, they do not actually resemble a clear list, so I have… Read More ›
Human as Media 