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Amazing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited

Lance Strate (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2014 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1930-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Lance Strate studied with Neil Postman at New York University, where he earned his Ph.D., and is currently Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. The author of Echoes and Reflections and On the Binding Biases of Time, he is a recipient of the Media Ecology Association's Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2014
Reihe/Serie	A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory ; 10
Reihe/Serie	A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory ; 10
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4331-1930-7 / 1433119307
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-1930-9 / 9781433119309
Zustand	Neuware