Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

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Macmillan, 2007 M09 18 - 272 páginas

Both a startling analysis and a charged polemic, this revised edition of Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives reveals the unending stream of manufactured images and sounds as a defining feature of our civilization and a perverse culmination of Western hopes for freedom.

With an afterword by the author.


In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, sociology professor and cultural historian Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of relentless sensation, instant transition, and nonstop stimulus, which he argues is anything but progress. He shows how all media, all the time fuels celebrity worship, paranoia, and irony, and how attempts to ward off the onrush become occasion for yet more media. Far from bringing about a "new information age," Gitlin argues, the digital torrent has fostered a society of disposable emotions and casual commitments, and threatens to make democracy a sideshow.

"A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times."—San Francisco Chronicle

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Introduction
1
Speed and Sensibility
71
Styles of Navigation and Political Sideshows
118
Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse Co
176
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Todd Gitlin is a professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York University. He lives in New York City.

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