Bemusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Social Media
In 1985, Neil Postman published Amusing Ourselves to Death, a McLuhan-inspired critique of the transformation of public discourse from 19th-century print culture, with its depth of reading, thought and debate, to the contemporary era of television ‘show business’. Developments since then, most notab...
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Wydawnictwa AGH
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Studia Humanistyczne AGH |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journalssystem.com/shagh/Bemusing-Ourselves-to-Death-Public-Discourse-in-the-Age-of-Social-Media,149893,0,2.html |