L(a)ying with Marshall McLuhan: Media Theory as Hoax Art
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عنوان ژورنال: Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d études interculturelle de l image
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1918-8439
DOI: 10.17742/image.ma.8.3.7