Amusing Ourselves to Death

Highlights

2025-03-05 (Week 10): about Technopoly (book) from Neil Postman The book was widely praised for its originality and cheerful techno-hippie vibes, but many readers rejected its most radical assertion: that the shift toward a Web 2.0 world, in — It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly The New Yorker
2025-03-12 (Week 11): “‘Flood the zone with shit’: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy” by Sean Illing “Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences” by Daniel Muise, Homa Hosseinmardi, Baird Howland, Markus Mobius, David — The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming
2025-03-12 (Week 11): Postman meant to indicate the relationship between a piece of information and what action, if any, a consumer of that information might reasonably be expected to take once learning it. In a speech to the German Informati — Information–action Ratio - Wikipedia
2025-03-12 (Week 11): who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. In 1969 and 1970, Postman collabora — Neil Postman - Wikipedia