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It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
we are in a race between education and disaster,
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman's questions to ask of a new technology:
What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?
Whose problem is it?
What new problems might result from solving this problem?
Which people and institutions might be harmed by this solution?
How does the new technology change our language, and what are the implications of tha... See more