Marshall McLuhan's 1962 study of how the printing press and moveable type transformed Western consciousness, creating linear, sequential, and individualist modes of thought while restructuring social and political life.
Coined the term 'global village'; demonstrated that print technology created the conditions for nationalism, individualism, and the privatization of reading, fundamentally reshaping Western cognition.
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