McLuhan
/məˈkluːən/- McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall (1911-80), Canadian writer and thinker. He became famous in the 1960s for his phrase 'the medium is the message' and his argument that it is the characteristics of a particular medium rather than the information it disseminates which influence and control society.麦克卢汉, （赫伯特·）马歇尔（1911-1980, 加拿大作家和思想家; 在20世纪60年代以其“媒介即信息”的论断成名, 认为影响和控制社会的是特定媒介的特性而不是媒介所散布的信息）。