Mediatic Etymology

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When establishing a cohesive framework within which to understand media, Marshall McLuhan famously posited that the content of every medium is yet another medium. He explained that the content of film was the screenplay or novel, that the content of printed matter was the alphabet, and that the content of the alphabet was phonetic speech. Although