| Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society Contributor(s): Shane, Ed (Author), Keith, Michael C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765605260 ISBN-13: 9780765605269 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302.230 |
| LCCN: 00059503 |
| Series: Media, Communication, and Culture in America |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.28" W x 9.28" (1.01 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society. |