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100 1 _aPostman, Neil.
245 1 0 _aAmusing ourselves to death :
_bpublic discourse in the age of showbusiness /
_cNeil Postman.
260 _aLondon :
_bMethuen,
_c2007.
300 _a192 p. ;
_c20 cm.
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.
650 0 _aMass media
_xInfluence.
650 0 _aMass media
_zUnited States.
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