Book
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
- Published
- 1985
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- Zhong xin chu ban she
- Pages
- 184
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9787508648286
- ISBN-10
- 7508648285
Tags
Critical ThinkingCultureMediaSociology