The Disappearance of Childhood
 The Attacks on this Book are as Weak as the Arguments of the Book are Strong: It is simply untrue to write, as Amazon Reviewer Aaron Swartz writes, that Neil Postman praised the Children's Letters "because they agreed with him". Rather, Postman [... more]
$13.95
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Information Anxiety 2 (Hayden/Que)
Amazon.com Review: Information might want to be free; but, why should we free it? We've got enough trouble keeping track of all the petabits that already run around untethered, and risk a computer counterrevolution if we let the situation get much [... more]
$29.99
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We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media ...
A very useful tool in sorting through the lies and hype.: This publication was useful in helping me and my family sort through the media hype surrounding who actually commits more crimes, whose on welfare, and who owns what super-giant media corporations. [... more]
$19.95
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Lies We Live By : Defeating Doubletalk and Deception in ...
Got it from the library, had to buy it!: This book is really awesome. I'm 14, and the title scared me at first... but then I opened it up and it's filled with pictures and illustrations of some pretty interesting (and sometimes funny) facts. It's true [... more]
$28.95
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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual ...
Amazon.com Review: In the recent past, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people had almost no presence on television. With the invention and propagation of tabloid talk shows such as Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Oprah, and Geraldo, people [... more]
$22.00
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Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
Must-read while studying McLuhan: Marchand and Postman do an excellent job with this biography on an unusual media prophet/quack. Reading about McLuhan's childhood, education, and work helped explain a lot about the man and his ideas. The book reads very [... more]
$21.95
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Electric Language: Understanding the Message
Understanding the present, or chuck theory for metaphor.: Look out, all you stuffed academics, all you jaded media types, all surfers caught in a web: McLuhan is back, or rather his son. This latest volume brings the McLuhan canon up to the present and [... more]
$19.95
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Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Images and Realities ...
Review: I enjoyed this book, and I learned a lot about the media by reading this book. Author: Ray Surette Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 364.254 EAN: 9780534508630 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0534508634 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 1997-07-16 [... more]
$45.95
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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action ...
The new plague that has swept America.: I've often found it fascinating whenever the media is blamed for the violence that happens in the world. This is yet another pretentious, self-righteous individual who offers the media as the problem. The finger- [... more]
$22.95
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The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, ...
Easy Reading: I love textbooks that are easy to read, and this one is, I breeze right through the chapters, everything is very easy to understand. Author: Kathleen Hall Jamieson Author: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 302.2 [... more]
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Was it just me????: or was that book almost impossible to read? I'm against children watching television and was hoping for a book that would support my view. I couldn't follow it, and in the end I didn't understand the four arguments. Okay, maybe it is [... more]
$13.95
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Milestones in Mass Communication Research (3rd Edition)
Useful for (Wealthy) Students of Communications Theory: Students of the theoretical side of mass communications, and who are looking for a historical angle, will find this textbook quite informative. A strong opening chapter outlines the traditions and [... more]
$114.80
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