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Understanding Media
Dominic Boyer
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Description for Understanding Media
Paperback. Explores our common habits of thinking about the presence and significance of the channels of information in our lives. Offering analysis of the philosophical and social foundations of contemporary media theory as well as everyday strategies of knowing media, this book addresses the advantages and limitations of different ways of understanding it. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 115 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Why do we understand media the way we do? In their simplest forms, media are means of communication and instruments of human creativity. But on another level, news outlets are powerful entities that govern how we think and act in the world, and they can even take on a sinister character, with conglomerates working in opposition to freedom of information. Dominic Boyer grapples with these complexities in "Understanding Media", where he questions what our different ways of engaging media actually tell us about ourselves, communication, and how we relate to information. "Understanding Media" explores, in a serious yet entertaining way, ... Read more
Why do we understand media the way we do? In their simplest forms, media are means of communication and instruments of human creativity. But on another level, news outlets are powerful entities that govern how we think and act in the world, and they can even take on a sinister character, with conglomerates working in opposition to freedom of information. Dominic Boyer grapples with these complexities in "Understanding Media", where he questions what our different ways of engaging media actually tell us about ourselves, communication, and how we relate to information. "Understanding Media" explores, in a serious yet entertaining way, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780979405709
SKU
V9780979405709
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About Dominic Boyer
Dominic Boyer is associate professor of anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author of Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press.
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