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Hace 3 días · Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death was a 1985 wake-up call we didn’t know we’d need forty years later. Postman (1931-2003), a media theorist and cultural critic, argued that television was not just changing what we watch, but how we think and communicate as a society. While Postman’s focus was on television, his insights have ...
Hace 2 días · In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman —one of the foremost American media theorists of the twentieth century—wrote that Orwell’s violent vision, which is a clear critique of the communist regime, is indeed frightening, but the vision we are in fact well on the way to realizing today is that of Huxley—a pleasure-based dystopia.
Hace 4 días · James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” the 1985 book that looks at how various mediums of communication used by societies influence the messages people receive in the society and details the way television, which presents all content as entertainment, handicaps our ability to engage in serious ...
Hace 5 días · After Ronald Reagan zingered his way to a second term in 1984, Neil Postman wrote that in the TV era, “debates were conceived as boxing matches.” But not until now had a president KO’ed ...
Hace 3 días · Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" Sherry Turkle, "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other" Various academic articles and contemporary case studies.
Hace 5 días · Amusing Ourselves to Death is the title of a book by Neil Postman that was published almost 40 years ago. Subtitled Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, it points out that when we should be conferring to find solutions to serious problems facing mankind, we fritter our time on mindless entertainment.
Hace 6 días · The winner each month will also receive $100. Submissions for the Prompt Poem of the Month are not anonymized—we still want to encourage everyone to share their weekly poems on the Rattlecast’s open lines—but choices are still being made solely based on the poem’s merit. Submit as many poems as you’d like to this category, but only ...
