Comments on: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman http://superfastreader.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman.htm i read all the books Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: superfastreader http://superfastreader.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman.htm/comment-page-1#comment-44 superfastreader Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:19:09 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/?p=47#comment-44 Read would be the Postman protegee I was speaking of--thanks for commenting! Siham, hope this helps-- Read would be the Postman protegee I was speaking of–thanks for commenting! Siham, hope this helps–

]]> By: Read Mercer Schuchardt http://superfastreader.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman.htm/comment-page-1#comment-43 Read Mercer Schuchardt Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:50:38 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/?p=47#comment-43 Postman would appreciate your insights, I suspect, as much as he would have enjoyed Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. But he would add that that was his point all along: smart narrative television doesn't actually make you smarter or more capable of anything -- EXCEPT the ability to watch and "get" -- you guessed it -- smart narrative television. In other words, it is a closed system, and the only real educational "take-away" is that it makes the viewer wish that all of life were as neat, smart, and well-edited as the TV shows are. If you're looking at real sociological measurables, however, such as SAT scores, literacy overall, dropout rates, retention rates, etc, then Postman is still winning this debate from beyond the grave. That being said, I am working on a piece for an anthology called "24 and Philosophy" and I think it's a great show! So yeah, if you are already print-literate, then I think TV is an endless source of fascination, wonder, and insight, which is why I don't have one: I'd be addicted in about a heartbeat. Postman would appreciate your insights, I suspect, as much as he would have enjoyed Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. But he would add that that was his point all along: smart narrative television doesn’t actually make you smarter or more capable of anything — EXCEPT the ability to watch and “get” — you guessed it — smart narrative television. In other words, it is a closed system, and the only real educational “take-away” is that it makes the viewer wish that all of life were as neat, smart, and well-edited as the TV shows are. If you’re looking at real sociological measurables, however, such as SAT scores, literacy overall, dropout rates, retention rates, etc, then Postman is still winning this debate from beyond the grave.

That being said, I am working on a piece for an anthology called “24 and Philosophy” and I think it’s a great show! So yeah, if you are already print-literate, then I think TV is an endless source of fascination, wonder, and insight, which is why I don’t have one: I’d be addicted in about a heartbeat.

]]> By: Siham Rechkaoui http://superfastreader.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman.htm/comment-page-1#comment-42 Siham Rechkaoui Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:31:40 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/?p=47#comment-42 First of all i would like to thank Postman for his nice informative work,i do really appreciate his efforts.my name is siham,i am from Morocco,i study in the university,third year English department,we are dealing with Postman`s book as a study in politics course and iam in charge of tackling the first chapter of this book,it`s title is Media as Epistemology,and i would like to know the relationship between epistemology and media,if that possible ofcourse. please contact me at:diab_soso@hotmail.com. Thank you very much. First of all i would like to thank Postman for his nice informative work,i do really appreciate his efforts.my name is siham,i am from Morocco,i study in the university,third year English department,we are dealing with Postman`s book as a study in politics course and iam in charge of tackling the first chapter of this book,it`s title is Media as Epistemology,and i would like to know the relationship between epistemology and media,if that possible ofcourse.
please contact me at:diab_soso@hotmail.com.
Thank you very much.

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