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May 23, 2012 · Neil Postman famously used a biological metaphor to explain “media ecology,” a term he borrowed from McLuhan to spearhead an intellectual tradition. In biology, a medium is defined as a substance within which a culture grows; in media ecology, a medium is a technology within which human culture grows, giving form to its politics, ideologies ...
Nov 7, 2019 · The US-American sociologist Neil Postman (1931–2003) was one of the most influential media critics in the second half of the 20th century. His analyses of the disappearance of childhood, the destruction of democracy and Bildung via mass media have nothing lost of their pertinence. On the contrary: In times of the so-called social media, fake news, trolls, bots and the increasing ...
Nov 12, 2020 · What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. . . . Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”—Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
24 of the best book quotes from Amusing Ourselves to Death. 01. “The concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.”. Neil Postman. author. Amusing Ourselves to Death. book. bias. ᐧ.
Amusing Ourselves to Death Summary. Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death opens by saying that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in his book, Brave New World, is one we ought to pay close attention to. Unlike another dystopian novelist, George Orwell, Huxley foresaw that we would eventually be destroyed by that which we love most ...
尼尔·波兹曼（英語： Neil Postman ，1931年3月8日—2003年10月5日），是美国作家、批评家、教育家。 他在 纽约大学 任教超过四十年时间，研究方向是文化传播和媒体理论，并开创了名为“ 媒体生态学 ”的新领域 [1] 。
Oct 9, 2003 · Neil Postman, a native New Yorker, graduated in 1953 from the State University of New York at Fredonia. He received a master's degree in 1955 and a doctorate in education in 1958, both from the ...
