Results for 'neil postman'
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Amazing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman’s Brave New World RevisitedIntegrating Postman’s arguments about television with his critique of technology in general, Strate considers the current state of journalism, politics, religion, and education in American culture. Strate also contextualizes Amusing Ourselves to Death through an examination of Postman’s life and career and the field of media ecology that Postman introduced.
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Amazing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman’s Brave New World RevisitedIntegrating Postman’s arguments about television with his critique of technology in general, Strate considers the current state of journalism, politics, religion, and education in American culture. Strate also contextualizes Amusing Ourselves to Death through an examination of Postman’s life and career and the field of media ecology that Postman introduced.
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Die Wortkultur und ihre Widersacher
In seiner hermeneutischen und auch konstruktivistischen Studie über den US-Medienguru und Bestsellerautor Neil Postman (Das Verschwinden der Kindheit, Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode, Die zweite Aufklärung) untersucht der Autor die Originalität, Rezeption und wissenschaftliche Gültigkeit von Postmans medienökologischen Thesen. Er analysiert den Ikonoklasmus sowie die Technophobie des Kulturkritikers, widerlegt seine kulturelle Schwundtheorie und ersetzt sie durch eine Definition von Kultur als kinetischem Provisorium: Die Wortkultur wird durch ihre Widersacher, die elektronischen Medien, letztlich modifiziert und konserviert. TV-geprägte Metaphorik, monokausale Simplifizierungen und Ideen-Recycling à la Postman bieten hierfür das beste Beispiel.
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Neil Postman - Amusing and Informing Ourselves to Death
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Orality and Literacy, language: English, abstract: The central topics of the works of the writer, educator, communication theorist, social critic and cultural commentator Neil Postman have always been the media, their different forms of communication and their meanings to people, society and culture. Any of his books was built around the McLuhan-question: ¿Does the form of any medium of communication affect our social relations, our political ideas, or psychic habits, and of course, as he [Marshall McLuhan] always emphasized, our sensorium¿ (Postman: 07/30/05)? Postman was aware of the fact that a new technology and therefore a new medium may have destructive as well as creative effects. During the history of mankind there have been tremendous changes in the forms, volume, speed and context of information and it is necessary to find out what these changes meant and mean to our cultures (Postman: 1985, 160). For him, it is a basic principle that ¿the clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation¿ (Postman: 1985, 8). In the book ¿Amusing Ourselves to Death - Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business¿ Postman examines, from a 1980s viewpoint, the changes in the American culture caused by the shift from the Age of Reason with the printed word at its center to the Age of Show Business with television as the central medium - or in simplifying terms the shift from rationality to triviality. Twenty years later, the situation has changed again. This term paper will make an attempt to answer the question what the new media, especially the internet, did to the modern (American) culture and to its public discourse. Obviously, Postman¿s provocative title ¿Amusing Ourselves to Death¿ was just the beginning of a fast moving development since nowadays the modern media world seems to shape our lives under the title ¿Informing Ourselves to Death¿ (Postman: 07/30/05) or to use one of the latest terms ¿Infotaining Ourselves to Death¿. ..First of all, the following chapters will examine the line of Postman¿s argumentation which led to the conclusion that television has significantly transformed the American society into an amusement and entertainment culture. What has happened and what was the role of the media? Was this the beginning of a ¿Brave New World¿? As a matter of fact, Postman¿s theories and statements are not to be taken as unreflected truth. Subsequently,some critical remarks are to be made from a 21 st -century viewpoint. [...]
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Die Medientheorie aus der Sicht Mc Luhans und Neil Postmans
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Methoden und Forschungslogik, Note: 1,7, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit zwei bedeutsamen Medientheoretikern des 20. Jahrhunderts: Marshall McLuhan und Neil Postman. In dieser Arbeit werden einige meiner Meinung nach relevanten Bücher der aus Nordamerika stammenden Autoren vorgestellt, ohne aber den Anspruch erheben zu wollen, ihre ganze Literatur umzufassen. Hier werden aber einige Grundgedanken bzw. Thesen der beiden Theoretiker verglichen.
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