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The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture

The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture

The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture

Richard Stivers

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Wipf and Stock Publishers
Año de edición:
2020
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9781532697265
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The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture proposes that modern technology seriously influences every aspect of culture and personality. Technology shapes our beliefs and values and even how we think of ourselves. It affects religion, morality, education, language, communication, and sexual identity. Every institution, every organization, is brought under its purview.This book attempts to awaken the reader to the destructive side of modern technology that exists side-by-side with its constructive side. What modern technology is destroying, however, is the very meaning of being human. The essay ''The Media Creates Us in Its Image'' makes this case most dramatically.The book asks the reader the following question: Is what you have gained from the use of modern technology more important than what you have lost? How do we once again bring technology under our control in the face of its inexorable ''progress''?

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