Research Catalog

Title

Understanding media : a popular philosophy / Dominic Boyer.

Author

Boyer, Dominic.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm Press, c2007.

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Description

vii, 103 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

"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."--book jacket.

Series Statement

Paradigm ; 30

Uniform Title

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) 30.

Subject

• Filosofische aspecten
• Mass media > Psychological aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Massamedia

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 097940570X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780979405709 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2007934315

OCLC

• 154689880
• SCSB-10234045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library