Postman theorized that television represents a merging of the worst aspects of telegraphy and photography - communication technologies rolled-out in the mid-19th century - by reducing, if not ...

In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are "amusing ourselves to death." By this, he meant that the emergent media environment was occupying an increased amount of our time ...

The uses of print and reading are not the same as they once were; not even in schools, the last institutions where print was thought to be invincible,” he wrote. “They delude themselves who believe ...