Eric McLuhan (born 1941) is the son of well-known media theorist Marshall McLuhan and co-authored with him the books The Laws of Media and Media and Formal Cause.
He received his B.Sc. in Communications from Wisconsin State University in 1972 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Dallas in 1980 and 1982 respectively.
He is also the author of Electric Language, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake; the editor of the journal McLuhan Studies, and the collections of his father's work: The Book of Probes, McLuhan Unbound, The Medium and the Light; and the co-editor of Essential McLuhan.
He also performed the original Fordham Experiment.
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