In Flickering Pixels author Shane Hipps claims that Marshall McLuhan is one of the greatest thinkers you’ve never heard of.  To the contrary, most Canadians are familiar with his iconic phrase, “The medium is the message.”  Having been familiarized with many notable Canadian figures through publicly funded tv-shorts that ran in ad slots on national television, his maxim is quite familiar to me.

Hipps’ work is unusual for a Christian non-fiction title; exploring not the tenets of the faith, but rather how technological advancements effect our faith.  As a professing internet-dependent Christian, this title offered the possibility of having my toes stomped on…I took it on in any case as part of an online-discussion blog tour project.  

Now, being in Canada the mail runs a bit slower from the US, and I’m only half-way through the book.  This isn’t a full length review (but I might have fooled you!), just some sharing of concepts.  Hipp’s includes magic-eye pictures in his book – how fun is that?  Or perhaps, how frustrating is that?  I was never good at them in high school and only picked up one of the two (after reading the answer).

On a more serious note, Hipps examines how changes in the presentation of information effect our minds and understanding of said information.  It’s really a great premise and fascinating so far.  I haven’t read his conclusions yet, nor formed any of my own, but I’m having fun thinking about technological advances, the printing press, mental structure and more.

So how about you…do you feel that the form knowledge is presented in effects your ultimate understanding of the content?  Do you understand the written word in a different way than you comprehend images/TV?

If you’ve read Flickering Pixels, please chime in with your own thoughts .

You can read what other bloggers are saying about this title by visiting the other blogs participating in the tour.

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