X-ray mosaic
In a 1967 BBC ‘Our World’ broadcast, the influential theorist Marshall McLuhan argued that global media effects represent ‘a huge mosaic’ and ‘x-ray of world cultures’:
A huge mosaic has been created in which, in effect, an x-ray of world cultures, not a story-line, not a perspective, not a point of view, but a kind of x-ray through this mosaic, is created in which everyone can participate.
Shared by Dr Niall Gallen, EDACS
Watch part of the ‘Our World’ broadcast below: