Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism

(Part of the Communication and Human Values Series)

by Joli Jensen

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803934777

ISBN13:9780803934771

Release Date:June 1990

Publisher:Sage Publications, Inc

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

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Communication Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Communications Language Arts Media Studies Skills Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks

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