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_aAmusing ourselves to death : _bpublic discourse in the age of showbusiness / _cNeil Postman. |
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_aLondon : _bMethuen, _c2007. |
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_a192 p. ; _c20 cm. |
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500 | _aOriginally published: New York: Viking, 1985; London: Heinemann, 1986. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
520 | 8 | _aAre we on the verge of culture-death? Using examples from America's past and present, Postman makes convincing cases that we are moving not towards Orwell's vision of the future but towards Huxley's Brave New World in which people become addicted to the technologies that take away their capacity to think. | |
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_aMass media _xInfluence. |
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_aMass media _zUnited States. |
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