Disconnected America

出版者:M E Sharpe Inc

作者:Shane, Ed

页数:224

出版时间:2000-12

价格:$ 46.27

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780765605276

具体描述

The more that media and advertising bombard consumers with messages, the more consumers find ways to filter out everything except for what interests them as individuals. What are the consequences -- for individuals and society -- of this trend?Media consultant Ed Shane convincingly demonstrates that we are moving from a society in which the mass media created a sense of connection among individuals to one in which the media now foster a "self-editing" consumer who filters out collective experience and universal knowledge, the organizational benchmarks of culture. As a result, he foresees an uncivil society composed of inwardly focused citizens with little or no ability to learn from historical experience.