GEO 609 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Yonge-Dundas Square, Marshall Mcluhan, Digital Divide
20 Apr 2017
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Question 1: urban regions are the foci communications, major decision making centres, technologically dependent. From toronto: 401 with toronto as a port city like the great lakes, wire traffic being the centre of electronic communications, cbc headquarters in toronto, 3 daily newspapers 2 of them are nationals. Huge credible educational environments providing skilled people to making decisions in the city, cbc as a news channel for toronto: we"re wired; dundas square with highlight mediated with that visual digital technology. Question 3: business and financial, power and control and command, cultural and creative industry, business and leisure tourism. Synergistic like they support each other and you can"t have one without the other, critical mass of activities to support each other and working together rand interdependently. Digital divide: mcluhan abc done by tvo back in 2002, they had a mcluhan week (first of 4 documentaries on mcluhan)
