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The metaphysics of media : toward an end to postmodern cynicism and the construction of a virtuous reality / Peter K. Fallon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fallon, Peter K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reality.
- Metaphysics.
- Mass media.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Scranton [Pa.] : University of Scranton Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why a metaphysics of media? : why should anyone care?
- On the utility of the media ecological perspective as a tool in the study of the metaphysics of a culture
- The contentious nature of objective reality and the inarguable value of truth
- Orality
- The metaphysics of orality
- Literacy
- The metaphysics of literacy
- Electric culture
- The metaphysics of electric culture
- In the dark : the survival of ignorance in an age of information
- Appendix: An explanation of the media ecological principles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781589662025
- 1589662024
- OCLC:
- 439210239
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