Bibliograph

Understanding media, a popular philosophy, Dominic Boyer

Type

Label

Understanding media, a popular philosophy, Dominic Boyer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Understanding media

Oclc number

154689880

Responsibility statement

Dominic Boyer

Review

"Why do we understand media the way we do? Sometimes we think about media simply as means of communication and instruments of human creativity. At other times we understand media as powerful technologies that influence human culture and that can even govern how we think and act. Dominic Boyer grapples with these complexities in Understanding Media, where he questions what our different strategies of engaging media actually tell us about media, their messages and powers." "Understanding Media explores, in a serious yet entertaining way, our common habits of thinking about the presence and significance of media in our lives. Offering analysis of the philosophical and social foundations of contemporary media theory as well as everyday strategies of knowing media, it addresses the advantages and limitations of different ways of understanding media. Boyer also reflects on the practical issue of how we can know media better than we do."--, Provided by publisher

Series statement

Paradigm, 30

Sub title

a popular philosophy

Table Of Contents

Talking media, thinking media -- Media instruments, media technologies, media excess

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