Redeeming modernity : contradictions in media criticism

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Redeeming modernity : contradictions in media criticism

Joli Jensen

（Communication and human values）

Sage, c1990

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 202-206

Includes index

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内容説明

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 concepts in American social and cultural thought and explores media as a new technology as a means for more positive expectations of media influence. The book closes with a section considering how debates on postmodernism redirect but do not resolve the basic contradictions in social and cultural thought.

目次

PART ONE: FOUR CRITICAL VOICES Dwight Macdonald The Media as Mass Culture Daniel Boorstin The Media as Spectacular Illusion Stuart Ewen The Media as Ideological Apparatus Neil Postman The Media as Corrosive Amusement Macdonald, Boorstin, Ewen, Postman What the Media Do PART TWO: MEDIA IN MODERNITY The Possibility of Progress The Modernity Story The Duality of Modernity The Modern as Mass Society American Modernity Media Modernity as Inauthentic Other Polluting the Future The World of Tomorrow Media as New Technologies Media as Technological Progress PART THREE: THREE DOMINANT METAPHORS The Media as Art The Media as Information The Media as Education Conclusions PART FOUR: CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIA DISCOURSE Essential Worth Lowest Common Denominator? Egalitarian Elitism The Contamination Theme Blurring Boundaries The Pure and the Polluting Media Minglings Corruption and Deflection PART FIVE: RECOGNITION AND RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS Media Power Redemptive Forms Historical Trajectories Immanence as Transcendence Consequences of Reconceptualization Recognizing the Dream

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