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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
ISBN-13:
9780062316806
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Jerry Mander
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jerry Mander studierte an der Business School der Columbia Universität und leitete in den sechziger Jahren eine große Werbeagentur in San Francisco, ehe er seine Talente für Kampagnen zum Schutz der Umwelt einsetzte. 1971 gründete er Public Interest Communications, die erste gemeinnützige Werbeagentur für sozial- und umweltpolitische Aktionsgruppen. Darüber hinaus verfasste er zahlreiche Bücher. Heute ist er Präsident des International Forum on Globalization, Programmdirektor der Foundation for Deep Ecology und Mitglied des Public Media Center, einem gemeinnützigen Werbeunternehmen für soziale und Umweltfragen.
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerousto personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processesthat TV ought to be eliminated forever.Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are neutral, benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerousto personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processesthat TV ought to be eliminated forever.Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are neutral, benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.