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Media Files I. Marshall McLuhan McLuhan's Philosophy. An overview of Marshall McLuhan's main ideas about media, with numerous references and links. McLuhan's Insight Into The Media. A McLuhanesque reading of September 11, 2001. "The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, The Holy Fool." Gary Wolf's oft-cited article that appeared in Wired Magazine several years ago. TV Epistemology. The kinds of questions the TV medium conditions us to raise, compared to those of reading.
II. Media Effects Our Mediated Life. An array of pop images, with questions about the cumulative psychic effect of seeing the most dissimilar graphics lumped together. Zengotita's Mediated. A short excerpt from Thomas de Zengotita's book. Making Sense of MeWorld. A review of Zengotita's Mediated, with thoughts about the downside of living in an age so thoroughly affected by images and representations of all kinds. The Real and the Unreal. A consideration of some of the ways our culture obliterates the distinction between the 'real' and 'unreal'. Huxley, Orwell, and Television. The foreword of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death.
III. Content & Ownership That Oppressed Minority. Explains why the charge of "liberal bias" in American media is only a canard. Self-Described Conservatives. A long list of conservatives in the media, followed by an exchange between Richard Poe and Tim Ruggiero. Media Giants. Who owns what today. On Media Concentration & The Diversity Question. An article by academic Robert Horwitz. Thoughts On Media. The scattered reflections of Jean Baudrillard, Murray Edelman, Walter Lippmann, and Marshall McLuhan.
IV. Miscellaneous
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