McLuhan Photoshop Final Post

For my McLuhan Final Project, I chose to create a photo shop image that depicted the use of Skype in today's world. The globe above the Skype icon is meant to symbolize a diverse world in which Skype brings together different countries and cultures to form a network for communication. Based on McLuhan's ideas and how technology and innovation has changed the world we live in, Skype is definitely a key example of his views. Skype as a medium, creates this "Global Village" that McLuhan noted in his work, and it does it in a way that allows people all over the world to communicate. The message that this medium sends is that it widens the restrictive gap of communication between several different nations. It increases the speed in which people can talk to each other whether its over the phone or by way of skype via the computer. I feel strongly that my photo shop image does a good job of illustrating skype and supporting McLuhan's views on the "medium". The four different people I chose for this image are meant to illustrate the diverse world that Skype allows for, and the continuous flow of communication over seas. Skype can very much be considered an extension of ourselves in the sense that people used to barely be able to communicate over close distances, and now those barriers have been broken. McLuhan would have absolutely seen this as a "break-through" technology that allows people to broaden their ways of communication.