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Volume 24, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 1539-7785
  • E-ISSN: 2048-0717

Abstract

This article provides a sampling of the contributions of foundational media ecology scholars to our understanding of urban communication. Such scholars include Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford and Walter Benjamin.

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