Mediated : how the media shape your world and the way you live in it

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Title:

Author:

De Zengotita, Thomas.

ISBN:

9781582343570

9781596910324

Personal Author:

De Zengotita, Thomas.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2005.

Physical Description:

ix, 291 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: Method acting -- Learning to love the blob -- The cult of the child -- Twilight of the heroes in a teenage world -- Identity politics -- Busy, busy -- The fate of nature -- Conclusion: Jedermensch ein Ubermensch -- Coda: Terror.

Abstract:

"From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness - and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Influence.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027564.html

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Summary

A provocative, eye-opening look at the way media shapes every aspect of our lives.

Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the media, along comes a book that transcends the conventional wisdom with an original vision, one that unites our most intimate personal concerns with far-reaching historical trends in an accessible way. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness-and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances.

Sophisticated, satirical, sometimes searing, ultimately forgiving, Mediated tackles everything we take for granted and reintroduces us to it all as if for the first time. You'll laugh, you'll squirm, you'll agree, you'll object-but you'll find more Aha! moments packed into fewer pages than you've ever come across before.