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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
His questions can be asked about all technologies and media. What happens to us when we become infatuated with and then seduced by them? Do they free us or imprison us? Do they improve or degrade democracy? Do they make our leaders more accountable or less so? Our system more transparent or less so? Do they make us better citizens or better consume
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
medium is the message” because it is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media
Every new medium of communication changes communication, whether that’s painting or hieroglyphs or the alphabet or television. Each medium creates a new orientation for thought, expression, and sensibility.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
media are high in participation or completion by the audience. Naturally, therefore, a hot medium like radio has very different effects on the user from a cool medium like the telephone.