Amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business /

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic medi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Postman, Neil
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2005.
Edición:20th anniversary ed.
Materias:
Medios de comunicación de masas > Influencia.
Medios de comunicación de masas > Estados Unidos.
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the Twentieth anniversary edition
  • In 1985
  • Foreword
  • The medium is the metaphor
  • Media as epistemology
  • Typographic America
  • The typographic mind
  • The peek-a-boo world
  • The age of show business
  • "Now...this"
  • Shuttle off to Bethlehem
  • Reach out and elect someone
  • Teaching as an amusing activity
  • The Huxleyan warning.

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