ADDICTED TO DISTRACTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MODERN MASS MEDIA
Book ID/图书代码： 07869919C00016
English Summary/英文概要： For most of us the Mass Media is the focus of our lives - it provides the material which is discussed and debated, it articulates our responses and it provides the framework by which a vast potential volume of material is filtered, prioritised and interpreted.
Headlines and sound-bites constantly vie for our attention, and thanks to the pace of its growth and advances in technology, the Mass Media is largely defined its ability to grab our attention, and its level of addictiveness.
The reality is that anything can be treated as overwhelmingly important, urgent, desperate, demanding of action now, but as easily forgotten. The medium has outgrown the message. The overall fact of this massive system has become more important than the details of its communications.
Stimulated by the horrific revelations of the Jimmy Savile affair at the BBC, with its implications of wholesale Establishment corruption and a sustained media cover-up, this book diagnoses the fundamental problem of the modern world as addiction to the distractions of the Mass Media and points to the only logical destination of its expansion: the destruction of society itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对我们大多数人来说，大众媒体是我们生活的焦点——它提供了讨论和辩论的材料，它阐明了我们的反应，它提供了一个框架，通过这个框架，大量潜在的材料被过滤、优先考虑和解释。
新闻头条和新闻片段不断地吸引着我们的注意力，由于它的发展速度和技术的进步，大众媒体在很大程度上被定义为它抓住我们注意力的能力，以及它的上瘾程度。
现实是，任何事情都可以被视为极其重要、紧迫、绝望、要求立即采取行动，但也很容易被遗忘。媒体已经超越了信息本身。这个庞大系统的整体情况已经变得比它的通信细节更重要。
刺激可怕的启示的吉米•萨维尔事件在英国广播公司(BBC)播出，其影响的批发机构腐败和持续掩盖的媒体，这本书诊断的是现代世界对大众媒体的干扰的基本问题,指出只有逻辑的、有目的地的扩张:社会本身的破坏。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况："在这项开创性的研究中，布鲁斯•查尔顿阐明了我们当前状况的基本特征。他将马歇尔•麦克卢汉关于“媒介即信息”的洞见发展成一种极具启发性的论述:大众传媒是一种自我维持的技术文化体系，它将人类生活的全部吸收到一个充满任性和不现实的虚拟世界中。就像柏拉图在他的洞穴神话中，他呼吁我们每个人都远离闪烁的图像，转向现实。我们需要关注这一呼吁。(詹姆斯•卡尔布:《自由主义的暴政和反对包容》的作者)
布鲁斯•查尔顿的《沉迷于分心》是一部精彩、精辟的作品，它对现代大众传媒及其永久革命、永久歇斯底里和永久混乱的半目的性议程进行了分析和谴责。他的评论就像医生解剖尸体的手术刀一样锋利，他的洞察力就像手术室里无情的灯光一样明亮而清晰。鱼会淹死吗?它甚至能注意到它生活和移动的水域吗?正如我们不能注意到现代大众传媒的极权相对主义。大众传媒是一台轰鸣、研磨、吸引眼球的机器，没有既定的目标;除了颠覆、破坏、嘲笑和毁灭。媒体破坏什么并不重要。无意义的颠覆是媒体的重点，而媒介就是信息。务必阅读和理解这本书……然后一个人到宁静的荒野去一年。”(约翰•赖特)
In this groundbreaking study, Bruce Charlton sheds brilliant light on fundamental features of our current situation. He develops Marshall McLuhan’s insight that "the medium is the message" into a deeply illuminating account of the mass media as a self-sustaining techno-cultural system that absorbs the whole of human life into a virtual world of willfulness and unreality. Like Plato in his Myth of the Cave, he calls for each of us to turn away from flickering images and toward realities. We need to heed that call. (James Kalb: author of The Tyranny of Liberalism and Against Inclusiveness)
"Addicted to Distraction by Bruce G Charlton is a brilliant, pithy, and incisive analysis and condemnation of the modern mass media and its semipurposeful agenda of permanent revolution, permanent hysteria, and permanent chaos. His comments are as cutting as the scalpel of a surgeon performing an autopsy, and his insights a bright and clear as the merciless lights in an operating theater. Can a fish drown? Can it even notice the waters in which it lives and moves? No more than can we notice the totalitarian relativism of the modern mass media. The Mass Media is a roaring, grinding attention-grabbing machine which operates with no set purpose; except the purpose to subvert, uncreate, mock and destroy. It does not matter what the media destroys. Pointless subversion is the point of the media, and the medium is the message. By all means read and understand this book ... and then go out by yourself into the calm and silent wilderness for a year." (John C Wright)
About the Author/作者介绍： 布鲁斯•查尔顿，英国白金汉大学理论医学教授，英国纽卡斯尔大学进化精神病学讲师。查尔顿教授广泛研究进化心理学和精神病学，以及科学共识和社会机制在生物医学研究中的作用。从2003年到2010年，他是《医学假说》的编辑。他也是《生命科学假说杂志》的编辑。Bruce Charlton is Professor of Theoretical Medicine, University of Buckingham, UK and Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry, Newcastle University, UK. Prof Charlton researches widely in evolutionary psychology and psychiatry, and on the role of scientific consensus and social mechanisms in biomedical research. From 2003 to 2010 he was editor of Medical Hypotheses. He is also an editor of The Journal of Hypotheses in the Life Sciences.
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