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Paperback Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism Book

ISBN: 0803934777

ISBN13: 9780803934771

Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism

(Part of the Communication and Human Values Series)

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This book examines the explicit and implicit logic operating in claims of media influence. Beginning with a close analysis of arguments by four critical voices - Dwight Macdonald, Daniel Boorstin, Stuart Ewen and Neil Postman - on the nature of media influence, the author demonstrates how they mobilize three dominant metaphors - media as information, media as art, and media as education. She then examines the historical and intellectual roots of these...

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