Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessViking, 1985 - 184 pagina's Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms our world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... language is the principal medium of communication - especially language con- trolled by the rigors of print — an idea , a fact , a claim is the inevitable result . The idea may be banal , the fact irrelevant , the claim false , but ...
... language is the principal medium of communication - especially language con- trolled by the rigors of print — an idea , a fact , a claim is the inevitable result . The idea may be banal , the fact irrelevant , the claim false , but ...
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... language . " The meta- phor is risky because it tends to obscure the fundamental differ- ences between the two modes of conversation . To begin with , photography is a language that speaks only in particularities . Its vocabulary of ...
... language . " The meta- phor is risky because it tends to obscure the fundamental differ- ences between the two modes of conversation . To begin with , photography is a language that speaks only in particularities . Its vocabulary of ...
Pagina 73
... language . Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions . Meaning is distorted when word or sentence is , as we say , taken out of context ; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before ...
... language . Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions . Meaning is distorted when word or sentence is , as we say , taken out of context ; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before ...
Inhoudsopgave
Media as Epistemology | 16 |
Typographic America | 30 |
The Typographic Mind | 44 |
Copyright | |
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