Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessViking, 1986 - 184 Seiten Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think. |
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... merely an echo of a speaking voice . It is another kind of voice altogether , a conjurer's trick of the first order . It must certainly have ap- peared that way to those who invented it , and that is why we should not be surprised that ...
... merely an echo of a speaking voice . It is another kind of voice altogether , a conjurer's trick of the first order . It must certainly have ap- peared that way to those who invented it , and that is why we should not be surprised that ...
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... merely to tell you that you have , and leave it at that . Our written statement would represent the " truth . " Our oral agreement would be only a rumor . The candidate wisely said no more on the matter except to indicate that he would ...
... merely to tell you that you have , and leave it at that . Our written statement would represent the " truth . " Our oral agreement would be only a rumor . The candidate wisely said no more on the matter except to indicate that he would ...
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... merely that on the televi- sion screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse . It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails . As typography once dictated the style of conducting politics , religion , business ...
... merely that on the televi- sion screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse . It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails . As typography once dictated the style of conducting politics , religion , business ...
Inhalt
Media as Epistemology | 16 |
Typographic America | 30 |
The Typographic Mind | 44 |
Urheberrecht | |
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