Question

According to this thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville did not write about England because he had mastered a grammar that did not apply there yet. This thinker was inspired by Gestalt theory to contrast the “figure” of a technology with its “ground,” the context in which we view it. This thinker co-wrote a book with Quentin Fiore that used 100-letter “thunder (-5[1])words” (15[1]-5[2])in (*) Finnegans Wake to analogize how different technologies affect the stages of history. This thinker examined how radio requires little user engagement while comic (10[1])books require active (10[1])participation to contrast “hot” and “cool” (10[1])activities. (10[1])This thinker argued the invention of movable type sped up the shift towards a “global village.” For 10 points, name this Canadian (10[1])author of (10[1])Understanding Media, who claimed “the medium is the message.” (10[2]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Marshall McLuhan (The other books are War and Peace in the Global Village and The Gutenberg Galaxy.)
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Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%17%33%103.80
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%25%99.00
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024N540%0%40%105.50
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024N1100%100%0%74.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024N4100%25%0%86.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024N3100%0%0%94.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matthew SiffYaleColumbia A60-5
Evan SchleckGathererLehigh A61-5
Jake GrodnerPrincetonBard6115
Sky LiToronto Penguin World WarToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl61-5
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto SproutOttawa8510
Jared HeWaterloo BustToronto cDNA8810
Eshan PantNYU ARutgers9410
Rayton LinWaterloo CaliToronto Pilk9510
Jack RadoColumbia AYale11710
Annie WilliamsNYU BLehigh B11910
Moses KitakuleColumbia BColumbia C12810
Eddie FuhrerLehigh AGatherer1280
Tony ChenToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlToronto Penguin World War12810