Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You
Author(s): Thomas de Zengotita
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.
Product Information
Appealing general social theory - for fans of Alain de Botton Winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award as the year's Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology given by the Media Ecology Association
Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, New York. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at NYU.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 15 January 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas de Zengotita
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 302.23
- : 304
- : Media studies; Cultural studies
