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Amazing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited (Paperback, New edition)
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Amazing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited (Paperback, New edition)
Series: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory, 10
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Neil Postman's most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death
(1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of
television on public discourse in America, arguing that
television's bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious
issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture. Lance
Strate, who earned his doctorate under Neil Postman and is one of
the leading media ecology scholars of our time, re-examines
Postman's arguments, updating his analysis and critique for the
twenty-first-century media environment that includes the expansion
of television programming via cable and satellite as well as the
Internet, the web, social media, and mobile technologies.
Integrating Postman's arguments about television with his critique
of technology in general, Strate considers the current state of
journalism, politics, religion, and education in American culture.
Strate also contextualizes Amusing Ourselves to Death through an
examination of Postman's life and career and the field of media
ecology that Postman introduced. This is a book about our prospects
for the future, which can only be based on the ways in which we
think and talk about the present.
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