Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business¶
Postman, N. (1985). Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
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- Media Ecology
- Postman's elaboration emphasized the epistemological signature of a medium: a society built around print develops epistemological norms (linear argument, evidence, consistency) that television, built around image and affect and 30-second tempo, erodes
This sourcePostman's account of a print-based epistemology giving way to a television-based one whose fragmented, seconds-long segments disable contradiction as a test of truth. Postman's exhibit of the three-hour 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates, argued in print-shaped sentences, against television's seconds-long format.
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- Postman's elaboration emphasized the epistemological signature of a medium: a society built around print develops epistemological norms (linear argument, evidence, consistency) that television, built around image and affect and 30-second tempo, erodes
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