Media unlimited : how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelms our lives / Todd Gitlin.

By:

Gitlin, Todd [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001Edition: First editionDescription: 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0805048987
9780805048988

Subject(s):

Mass media

DDC classification:

302.23

LOC classification:

P90. G4778 2001

Contents:

1. Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling -- 2. Speed and Sensibility -- 3. Styles of Navigation and Political Sideshows -- 4. Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse & Co.

Review: "Everyone knows that the media surround us, but no one quite understands how this happened and what it has done to our lives. Critics and analysts focus on this show or that star, the latest Superbowl ad or twenty-four-hour news binge, but they miss the true import of our total immersion in a fast-moving torrent of sounds and images. As he did with television in Inside Prime Time and with the culture wars in The Twilight of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin once again recasts the world we think we know. In Media Unlimited, a remarkable and original look at our media-glutted, speed-addicted world, he makes us stare, as if for the first time, at the biggest picture of all."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	302.23 GIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A256186B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.

1. Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling -- 2. Speed and Sensibility -- 3. Styles of Navigation and Political Sideshows -- 4. Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse & Co.

"Everyone knows that the media surround us, but no one quite understands how this happened and what it has done to our lives. Critics and analysts focus on this show or that star, the latest Superbowl ad or twenty-four-hour news binge, but they miss the true import of our total immersion in a fast-moving torrent of sounds and images. As he did with television in Inside Prime Time and with the culture wars in The Twilight of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin once again recasts the world we think we know. In Media Unlimited, a remarkable and original look at our media-glutted, speed-addicted world, he makes us stare, as if for the first time, at the biggest picture of all."--BOOK JACKET.

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