desertcart配送商品ならAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessが通常配送無料。更にdesertcartならポイント還元本が多数。Postman, Neil, Postman, Andrew作品ほか、お急ぎ便対象商品は当日お届けも可能。 Review: Written about hoe television mangles society’s ability to think, it is certainly relevant in a world of instant access to distraction. The conversion of news to entertainment discussion is particularly relevant even if he may romanticize the extent of rational thought in what he calls The Age of Exposition. I especially like his discussion of the “Now this” phenomena which reduces all news to instant entertainment. Review: Still fresh and poignant. A couple of things sadden me about this text. Firstly, why have I not heard of this until recently? Secondly why is/was Professor Postman not more famous? In respect of the latter point he crosses numerous threads with Chompsky and whilst I am not inferring he is quite in that company, his thinking certainly warranted much more exposure that he clearly received. Whether through personal choice, fate or media's backlash I don not know. Suffice to say that the time given over to imbeciles and the freaks of society grasping for the 15 minutes on reality television is an enormous travesty. This is an absolutely wonderful treatise on not only television, but society-at-large too and the shifting cultural paradigms that Professor Postman was no doubt entangled in 1985. As the introduction alludes to, this book is perhaps more relevant to contemporary audiences that historical ones and clearly has a lot still to add to the debate - a debate we sadly seem to have stopped having - well some of you have... Rather than give my further opinion, I would simply like to offer you some of my favourite quotes from the text in a hope this will inspire the reader to go out and purchase a copy of this book. “We know enough about language to understand that variations in the structures of languages will result in variations in what may be called the “world-view”” (p.10) “The new imagery, with photography at its forefront, did not merely function as a supplement to language, but bid to replace it as our dominant means for construing, understanding and testing reality.” (p.74) “Television has acieved the status of “meta-medium” - an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the world, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well.” (p. 78) “A technology becomes a medium as it employs a particular symbolic code, as it finds its place in a particular social setting, as it insinuates itself into economic and political contexts. A technology in other words, is merely, a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.” (p.84) "There are two ways by which the spirit of our culture may be shriveled. In the first- the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes burlesque." (p.155)
| Amazon 売れ筋ランキング | 洋書 - 29,420位 ( 洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る ) TV History & Criticism - 9位 Telecommunications (洋書) - 22位 Communication & Media Studies - 101位 |
| ISBN-10 | 014303653X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0143036531 |
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| ペーパーバック | 208ページ |
| 出版社 | Penguin Publishing Group; Anniversary版 (2005/12/27) |
| 寸法 | 1.52 x 12.95 x 19.56 cm |
| 発売日 | 2005/12/27 |
| 言語 | 英語 |
C**N
Written about hoe television mangles society’s ability to think, it is certainly relevant in a world of instant access to distraction. The conversion of news to entertainment discussion is particularly relevant even if he may romanticize the extent of rational thought in what he calls The Age of Exposition. I especially like his discussion of the “Now this” phenomena which reduces all news to instant entertainment.
P**S
Still fresh and poignant. A couple of things sadden me about this text. Firstly, why have I not heard of this until recently? Secondly why is/was Professor Postman not more famous? In respect of the latter point he crosses numerous threads with Chompsky and whilst I am not inferring he is quite in that company, his thinking certainly warranted much more exposure that he clearly received. Whether through personal choice, fate or media's backlash I don not know. Suffice to say that the time given over to imbeciles and the freaks of society grasping for the 15 minutes on reality television is an enormous travesty. This is an absolutely wonderful treatise on not only television, but society-at-large too and the shifting cultural paradigms that Professor Postman was no doubt entangled in 1985. As the introduction alludes to, this book is perhaps more relevant to contemporary audiences that historical ones and clearly has a lot still to add to the debate - a debate we sadly seem to have stopped having - well some of you have... Rather than give my further opinion, I would simply like to offer you some of my favourite quotes from the text in a hope this will inspire the reader to go out and purchase a copy of this book. “We know enough about language to understand that variations in the structures of languages will result in variations in what may be called the “world-view”” (p.10) “The new imagery, with photography at its forefront, did not merely function as a supplement to language, but bid to replace it as our dominant means for construing, understanding and testing reality.” (p.74) “Television has acieved the status of “meta-medium” - an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the world, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well.” (p. 78) “A technology becomes a medium as it employs a particular symbolic code, as it finds its place in a particular social setting, as it insinuates itself into economic and political contexts. A technology in other words, is merely, a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.” (p.84) "There are two ways by which the spirit of our culture may be shriveled. In the first- the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes burlesque." (p.155)
A**É
Even though it was written many years ago, this book is a must read for anyone qho want to understand our society today. The same goes for Aldous Huxley "A brave New World". Two masterpieces.
S**N
The rise of the printing press and the high quality education society got from all the great books written has now been replaced by photos, images, pictures and video. We now live today in a society of potato heads that don't read and stare at their TV screens all day long...how do they do it? They do it via the cellphone by watching hundreds of hours of time wasting dystopia which was created by people that we don't even know and we'll probably never meet. We turn on the TV and amuse ourselves to death. I haven't had a TV or cellphone for 20+ years and I have read more books, gone on more walks and more important, I'm happier for it. This book is a grand slam home run. One of the greatest authors of our era. Sensational and common sense based book about the dangers and hazards of TV on society. I'm going to see what else Mr Neil Postman has written for sure. I'm going to get all of his great works...one amazing book at a time. Sometimes I was on the Toronto subway and would read small pieces to complete strangers and they would smile, get out their cell phones, snap a photo of the book and say "yeah, I'm getting this on Amazon Canada". The most shocking information I've ever been exposed to in my life. I had great joy and laughter as I read about the surreal nature of what is transpiring. I love books so much.
A**N
Highly recommended
K**R
Essays that are a few decades old can sometime fall into irrelevance, this is not the case here. A lot of the issues raised in this book from the golden age of television are still valid today in the age of social networks.
M**D
Was really looking forward to reading this book but the paper is such poor quality and the font so small that I’m finding it difficult to actually read.
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