The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture
Stivers, Richard
ISBN 10: 1532697252 ISBN 13: 9781532697258
Verlag: Cascade Books, 2020
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The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture proposes that modern technology seriously influences every aspect of culture and personality. Technology shapes our beliefs and values and even how we think of ourselves. It affects religion, morality, education, language, communication, and sexual identity. Every institution, every organization, is brought under its purview.
This book attempts to awaken the reader to the destructive side of modern technology that exists side-by-side with its constructive side. What modern technology is destroying, however, is the very meaning of being human. The essay “The Media Creates Us in Its Image” makes this case most dramatically.
The book asks the reader the following question: Is what you have gained from the use of modern technology more important than what you have lost? How do we once again bring technology under our control in the face of its inexorable “progress”?
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Richard Stivers is the author of Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype; The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline; Technology as Magic; Shades of Loneliness; and The Illusion of Freedom and Equality. He is an emeritus distinguished professor of sociology at Illinois State University.
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Titel: The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other ...
Verlag: Cascade Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New