Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

ISBN-10: 0805086897
ISBN-13: 9780805086898
Category: Social Science
Pages: 272
Language: English
Published: 2007-09-18
Publisher: Macmillan
Author: Todd Gitlin

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A thought-provoking but balanced examination of our media-dominated world reveals the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that have defined our civilization, from video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, and punditry to Internet exhibitionists. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

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