Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including...
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book by educator Neil Postman. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide. In 2005, Postman's son Andrew reissued...
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Media ecology (section Neil Postman)
Neil Postman in 1968. Ecology in this context refers to the environment in which the medium is used – what they are and how they affect society. Neil...
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The End of Education is a book by Neil Postman about public education in the United States. The use of the word "end" in the title has two meanings: primarily...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a...
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is a concept coined by cultural critic Neil Postman in his work Amusing Ourselves to Death. In short, Postman meant to indicate the relationship between...
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to do about it by Neil Postman, Delacorte Press, 1976. All of Postman's books are informed by his study of General Semantics (Postman was editor of ETC...
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in some respects to the Socratic method. The method was advocated by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a Subversive Activity...
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citizens who qualified for it. Amusing Ourselves to Death – 1985 book by Neil Postman Battle Royale – 1999 novel by Koushun Takami Battle Royale (film) – 2000...
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those of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Jack Goody, and Neil Postman, among others. Currently, medium theory occupies a marginal position...
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value judgments that shape technology.[page needed] Cultural critic Neil Postman distinguished tool-using societies from technological societies and from...
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all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. In 1985 Neil Postman drew another parallel by referring to a quote by Plato: No man of intelligence...
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enter a valid marriage". According to The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman, the Christian Church of the Middle Ages considered the age of accountability...
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Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Herbert Marcuse, E. P. Thompson, Neil Postman and A. S. Neill as well as syndicalist organizations such as the IWW...
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reaction to people who do not believe. In his book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk, Neil Postman states that "the key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming...
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study of how conversation changes in social and workplace situations. Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death (Conversation is not the book's specific...
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texts and other thinkers in the Frankfurt School in the 1930s and 1940s. Neil Postman in his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death worried that McLuhan's theory...
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American cinema" released by the American Film Institute (AFI) in 2004. Neil Postman (8 June 2011). Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language...
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Scott Savage, Clifford Stoll, Bill McKibben, Neil Postman, Wendell Berry, Alan Marshall and Gene Logsdon. Postman, however, did not consider himself a Luddite...
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critique the societal impact of mass communication. Theorists such as Neil Postman and George Gerbner as well as authors such as Nicholas Carr have argued...
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servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience." Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in...
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students to generate ideas and new questions. (Goldenberg, p. 317). Dr. Neil Postman has said, "All our knowledge results from questions, which is another...
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an essay titled "Future Shock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote: Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner...
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School of media theorists including Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Neil Postman. Simultaneously, Rushkoff continued to develop his relationship with...
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Experience is published. Michel Maffesoli's Shadow of Dionysus is published. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is published. Jeffrey Weeks' Sexuality and...
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Marc Postman is the son of educator, author and cultural critic Neil Postman. Postman received the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy...
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his emphasis on the making of meaning influenced later psychologists. Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, both of whom were educational critics and promoters...
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named a "Notable Book" by The New York Times. In 2013 he received the "Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity" from the...
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on lead guitar on several tracks. The album's title was inspired by Neil Postman's 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In 2015, the album was remixed...
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passivity in the event of human rights abuses or genocide. Jean Baudrillard Neil Postman Post-literacy The Society of the Spectacle Slattery, Dennis Patrick (2021-07-14)...
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