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Print Based Culture Higher Forms Of Technology People
856 wordsIt is in my own belief that higher forms of technology will end up being the sole distributor of information and that linear typographical information exchange will slowly dwindle down as time edges onward. In comparison, the amount of information exchanged through todays textual media and the amount that people take in through some higher form of technology is mind boggling. People today can sit effortlessly on a couch with the television on channel nine and absorb all of the day's news in a sh...
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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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Tool Using Cultures Rise Of Technopoly Postman
1,400 wordsNeil Postman takes a pessimistic view of technology and its future in his book Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Upon first reading of the title, I was prepared for yet another example of meaningless technology bashing. Context-free sentiments such as Kill your TV seem to flow unimpeded from every angle, especially from university faculty / writers . While Postman's delivery is certainly not the Kaopectate required for this problem, it does attempt to provide context and explan...
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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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Reading This Book Watching Television
655 wordsI have just read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman states that the age of typography has been replaced by the age of television. This has changed the way we look at the world and the way we think, which in turn has almost made us less intelligent. Postman speaks his opinions freely, and really gives the reader a new perspective on media, and the effect it has on society. To often we think nothing of what we see and read in the media, but after reading this book you see things a lot d...
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Electronic Media Print Media
1,202 wordsElectronic media is inferior to print media due to the fact that electronic media can be bias, selective, and evasive for the purpose of entertainment. Electronic media serves as a form of entertainment with a main goal of serving their ratings rather than serving the people. It would seem that Postman would agree with this theory since he describes electronic media as a form of entertainment rather than a reliable source of information and facts in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. Lets star...
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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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Time The Mayor Captious Mr Auditor
618 wordsCharlatan The play Charlatan is a comedy about the inhabitants of a small provincial town where the bureaucracy was catholic and all the people would put all their efforts only to please the enclave of bungling representatives of local government. The addiction of complacent higher echelons of local society was to live an affluent and careless life instead of working and caring about the town inhabitants and the town itself. Among the main characters of the play is the mayor of the town - a quit...
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About The Jolly Pocket Postman
860 wordsAbout The Jolly Pocket Postman Abstract This article highlights the basic features and the themes associated with the book, The Jolly Pocket Postman, written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg in 1995 predominantly for children. The book is a sequel to a series with the first title commencing with The Jolly Postman published in 1986. The extraordinarily high degree of artistic merits of The Jolly Pocket Postman can be gauged from the display of an astounding range of illustrations coupled with rhymed na...
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Associate Postman Highly Metaphorical Movie
685 wordsRole of the Metaphors Despite the fact that cinematographic properties of Kevin Costner's movie Postman can be described as mediocre at best, it nevertheless represents a great ideological value, as this movie allows viewers to realize what the concept of civilization stands for, without having to study history, on their part. This is because of highly metaphorical essence of Postman. It will not be an exaggeration to say that this movie helped me more then any other in understanding the mechani...
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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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Alice Munro Fairy Tale
2,098 wordsAlice Munro Alice Munro was born in a family of farmers in Canada. One of the brilliant short stories writers she was awarded with a number of literally prizes. The protagonists of her short stories are women of her age. She does not go far from her native place and finds her heroes just in the neighborhood she lives. Being a master of the word she was acclaimed by short-story writer Cynthia Ozick as "our Chekhov." 1 Munro similar to Chekhov succeeds in finding her plots in the everyday life of ...
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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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York Houghton Today
862 words&# 65279; Technology: A Tool For Education More and more each day technology infiltrates deeper into our daily lives and routines. In fact, it has become such an integral part of society, that mass hysteria and panic would undoubtedly ensue should it suddenly be taken away. To allow technology to take control would surely lead to a disintegration of society. Today, most classrooms are connected to the Internet or at the very least contain computers to help educate the nation? s children. Technol...
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Aggressive Behavior C W
727 wordsPeople across the world keep dogs as pets. These dogs are usually a big part of their owners lives and often grow up to truly be, mans best friend, . What, then, can be done for a dog with behavior problems? Through recent research it has been establish hed that dogs, like many humans, do suffer from mental disorders. There is however, a variety of treatments available and a complete cure is often achieved. Dr. Nicholas Dodman, in his book, The Dog That Loved Too Much, says that, Aggression is t...
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Dishonest Conniving Swindler Typical Dishonest Conniving Swindler Life
1,620 wordsThe Suicide A Critique Irony, ridicule and nonsense combined with an unimaginable plot and unthinkable characters make the farce one of the one of the more entertaining genres. Although it is not what you might call knee-slapping humor, The Suicide certainly does have its comical moments. Unfortunately it also has its slow points as well. The Suicide was apparently not so humorous to the Russian leadership during the Communist era as Lennin promptly banned the play after seeing the performance. ...
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Websters New World Dictionary First Amendment
1,656 wordsIn the First Amendment, it is stated that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. These aforementioned statements ratified by our forefathers are commonly referred to as the freedom of expression. The freedom of expression is not only limited to speech; it refers...
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Aggressive Behavior C W
728 wordsAggression as a Mental Disorder in Canines People across the world keep dogs as pets. These dogs are usually a big part of their owners lives and often grow up to truly be, mans best friend, . What, then, can be done for a dog with behavior problems? Through recent research it has been established that dogs, like many humans, do suffer from mental disorders. There is however, a variety of treatments available and a complete cure is often achieved. Dr. Nicholas Dodman, in his book, The Dog That L...
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