Mediated: How the Media Shapes your world and the way you live in it - Hardcover

De Zengotita, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582343578 ISBN 13: 9781582343570

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"Reading Thomas de Zengotita's "Mediated" is like spending time with a wild, wired friend--the kind who keeps you up late and lures you outside of your comfort zone with a speed rap full of brilliant notions."
"A fine roar of a lecture about how the American mind is shaped by (too much) media...."

"Deceptively colloquial, intellectually dense...This provocative, extreme and compelling work is a must-read for philosophers of every stripe."

"Reading Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated is like spending time with a wild, wired friend-the kind who keeps you up late and lures you outside of your comfort zone with a speed rap full of brilliant notions."

One of the best books Ive ever read about the media. -- Brian Lehrer, host of On the Media, National Public Radio

"One of the best books I've ever read about the media."
--Brian Lehrer, host of On the Media, National Public Radio

About the Author

Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at NYU.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1582343578
• ISBN 13: 9781582343570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 291