[LINK] ABC Celebrates McLuhan

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

Anna writes that the ABC is planning another "pop up" radio station etc,
this time in celebration of Marshall McLuhan ..

> From:   Anna Bolton <Bolton.Anna at abc.net.au>
> Date:   Thu, 26 May 2011 14:22:23 +1000 
> Subject:  ABC Radio National's Celebration of the McLuhan 
 
Hello,

You may know that 21 July this year marks the centenary of the birth of 
Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is marking the anniversary with a 
suite of special programs on ABC Radio National, culminating in a “pop-
up” (temporary) radio station on ABC Digital on the weekend of July 23 
and 24, which will include archival material and explore life in the 
present digital age.

We are also developing a special online space, which will include an 
interactive infographic depicting a timeline of McLuhan’s life, and the 
media and communications landscape from his birth until the present day 
(and into the future!).

We’ve kicked it off with some starter dates and events:

http://dragtotrash.com/misc/marshall/mcluhan/60th/

Now, this is where you come in.

As a part of this project, we would value your input on what you believe 
to be the best or most significant cultural phenomenon or events during 
this period of the McLuhan century (1911-2011), in any of the following 
categories:
 
·         Communication Technologies - Significant technological 
developments or advances (for example, the first colour television 
broadcast by John Logie Baird in the UK on 4 February 1938), or the first 
mobile telephone, brick size (2kgs) in 1973, or even Agent 86’s shoe 
phone, first depicted in the first scene of the first episode of Get 
Smart in 1965)
 
·         Media Events - Ways in which the media has reflected historical 
events (such as images of the Vietnam War, Apollo 11 and the moon 
landing, the felling of the twin towers etc.)
Great moments in modern culture - (for example, the opening of 
Australia’s first Westfield Mall in Blacktown, July 1959, legalisation of 
gay marriage in the Netherlands in 2001, Vatican II from 1962-1965, First 
public broadcast of a presidential funeral in 1963 following Kennedy’s 
assassination, etc)
Advertising - Iconic or representative advertisements (from the Marlboro 
man to Burger King’s subservient chicken)
Biography - Significant events in McLuhan’s life and work (including 
publications, television appearances etc)
Future Directions  - Your own McLuhan-esque observations, insights and 
predictions for the future
We will be collating this data and incorporating it into the infographic.

Feel free to answer any or all of the aforementioned categories. 

We request that the information is provided in the following format:
Event
Category
Date of event
Brief description (about 30 words)
Relevant image, audio, video or other media (either a link or attached 
file)
Links to further information on the event, commentary, audio or video clip
Suggested by (your name)

Below is a link to a Google spreadsheet where you can easily enter the 
information.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=t3rY-
buwEhNZWbHPPhT7a5w&authkey=CPeD4oQC#gid=0

If you have any difficulty accessing or using the spreadsheet, please 
reply to this email with the information you would like to be included.

Your ideas and expertise will be invaluable to the project, and we look 
forward to hearing from you. 

And if you have any general comments or suggestions we’d love to hear 
those as well. 

Regards,
Anna Bolton
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Cheers, Anna
Stephen Loosley