Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You
Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You
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Product Details:
Author:
Thomas de Zengotita
Paperback:
304 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date:
January 15, 2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
0747570868
Package Length:
7.64 inches
Package Width:
5.04 inches
Package Height:
0.87 inches
Package Weight:
0.44 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
based on 1 reviews
Description:
Here is the world we think we know presented to us as if for the very first time. From oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics, from Homer Simpson to O. J. Simpson, from Princess Diana's funeral to the aftermath of September 11, from reality TV to hip-hop nation, "Mediated" takes us on a provocative tour of our media-drunk society. It is a brilliantly satirical treatise on our culture - the real and unreal times in which we live, the cult of celebrity and our own narcissistic response to it. Read this book and nothing that you see or hear can any longer be taken for granted.
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Message in a bottleDec 27, 2007 Like a modern-day Jonah, Thomas de Zengotita's "Mediated" updates Marshall McLuhan to deliver a new message about "the MEDIA" from the post-modern belly of the whale.