Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism

by Joli Jensen

Book Overview

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.