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Category Archives: Book reviews
Dubble Bubble
Theirs was a “language” that denied interconnectedness, proceeded without context, argued the irrelevance of history, explained nothing, and offered fascination in place of complexity and coherence. Theirs was a duet of image and instancy, and together they played the tune … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Discover
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Dollarocracy, duopoly, John Nichols, media madness, Neil Postman, Orwell & Huxley, Penguin Books, plutocracy, Public Discourse in the Age of Television, public media, public radio, public television, Robert W. McChesney
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Everything Is Oblivious
Duncan Watts, sociologist, conducted a study by setting up two versions of a garageband music download website. Both sites had the same songs available for download. The only difference was this, at one site users could see how many times … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Discover
Tagged (dis)honesty project, commonsense, conventional wisdom, cultural echo chamber, Dan Ariely, Duncan Watt, Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer, groupthink, herd mentality, mass hysteria, mass madness, mindless conformity, pluralistic ignorance, reason vs intuition, Yael Melamede
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