Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessTelevision has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition | vii |
In 1985 | xvii |
Foreword | xix |
The Medium Is the Metaphor | 3 |
Media as Epistemology | 16 |
Typographic America | 30 |
The Typographic Mind | 44 |
The PeekaBoo World | 64 |
The Age of Show Business | 83 |
Now This | 99 |
Shuffle Off to Bethlehem | 114 |
Reach Out and Elect Someone | 125 |
Teaching as an Amusing Activity | 142 |
The Huxleyan Warning | 155 |
Overige edities - Alles weergeven
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman Fragmentweergave - 1985 |
Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business Neil Postman Fragmentweergave - 1986 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business |
| Auteur | Neil Postman |
| Editie | herzien |
| Uitgever | Penguin, 2006 |
| ISBN | 014303653X, 9780143036531 |
| Lengte | 184 pagina's |
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