Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism - Couverture souple

Jensen, Joli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803934777 ISBN 13 : 9780803934771

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1990

Synopsis

This book examines the explicit and implicit logic operating in claims of media influence. Beginning with a close analysis of arguments by four critical voices - Dwight Macdonald, Daniel Boorstin, Stuart Ewen and Neil Postman - on the nature of media influence, the author demonstrates how they mobilize three dominant metaphors - media as information, media as art, and media as education. She then examines the historical and intellectual roots of these concepts in American social and cultural thought and explores media as a new technology as a means for more positive expectations of media influence. The book closes with a section considering how debates on postmodernism redirect but do not resolve the basic contradictions in social and cultu

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803934777
• ISBN 13: 9780803934771
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible