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Neil Postman Presidential Debates
1,200 wordsIn Chapter 8 of his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman talks about the phenomenon of religious programming on television. He concludes that... there are several characteristics of television and its surround that converge to make authentic religious experience impossible. (p. 118) I believe that though it's not explicitly stated, the concept of boundaries which I have been discussing is an essential element of his argument. He says that... there is no way to consecrate the space in wh...
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Effects Of Television Violence
1,402 wordsCensorship of the media is a hotly contested topic that has spawned a controversial outcry from the public. The public has also declared that there is excessive violence portrayed on television and that this violence ultimately negatively affects viewers, especially children. Hence, there exists a double-edged sword. Censorship is the regulation and control of information and ideas that are circulated among people within a society. It refers to the examination of electronic and print media for t...
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The Man Who Counts Killings
591 wordsI. Personal Summary of Position Taken in this Reading Scott Stossel writes the article of "The Man Who Counts the Killings. " This reading focuses on the lifetime works and studies of George Gerbner. He would be best known as "the man who counts the killings" because he had spent the last thirty years doing just that. A National Commission on the causes and prevention of violence selected George Gerbner in 1968 to study the effect of violence in the media by analyzing the amount of violence on t...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
940 wordsIn the novel Brave New World, writer Aldous Huxley warns that society will be conditioned to accept a new way of living and to blindly adapt to certain dysfunctional behaviors. Neil Postman, writer of Amusing Ourselves To Death, sees Aldous Huxley's vision quite possibly coming true in todays world. The process of conditioning peoples minds and thoughts to behave in a certain way is a major theme that Aldous Huxley illustrates in his novel. Similar to the people in the Brave New World society, w...
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York Vintage Books 21 St Century
2,462 wordsTECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM Technological determinism is a reductionist doctrine that a society's technology determines its cultural values, social structure or history. (Wikipedia). This is a concept that believes in technology as a key governing force in society. Many say that the term was coined by Thorstein Veblen, an American sociologist. Most of news media and popular culture adhere to this. Two ideas foremost in understanding technological determinism have two general ideas. This means that...
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Neil Postman Television Shows
726 wordsTelevision is a pervasive and complex part of children? s lives, there are many factors that affect how much and what they view. In the essay? Teaching as an Amusing Activity? (1987), Neil Postman argues television conditions us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in chunks at a time. He explains the ways in which the media is changing the way our children are learning. Neil Postman starts off by explaining how television is being used as an attractive and seductive medium to...
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