THE MEDIA SYMPLEX: AT THE EDGE OF MEANING IN THE AGE OF CHAOS
Book ID/图书代码： 00110906B04594
English Summary/英文概要： In this brilliant, prophetic book, Frank Zingrone shows how mass media, and all electronic technology, simplify our ability to represent experience. Reality is becoming for us entertainingly mediated, with nature itself becoming a filmic simulation of reality with media access from our living rooms. We watch gourmet cooks prepare complex meals on TV while increasing our consumption of convenience foods. We become increasingly sedentary while accessing escalating amounts of mass sport.
The result of this overload? A paralysis that keeps us from taking social or political action, that confines us to consume as directed by the images created by advertisers. A paralysis that cripples public discourse. A paralysis that deadens the vitality of tradition and fosters dispersonalization. In The Media Symplex, Zingrone charts a path through the maze of modern media overload. In doing this, he gives us insights into retrieving meaning from the edge of chaos.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这本杰出的、先知的作品中，弗兰克将会阐述大众媒体和所有科学技术是如何简化了人们体验的能力。我们看着电视机中的美食家制作各种让人垂涎欲滴的美食，但是方便食品却成了家庭中日益增长的消耗。当电视中越来越多的群众体育节目出现，我们也无形中养成了久坐的习惯。
结果会带来什么呢？麻痹让人们无法进行社会或政治活动，削弱了公众舆论，让传统失去活力，消费行为也被广告所控制...本书中，作者将拨开媒体过剩的迷雾，把人们处于混乱边缘的视线拉回，并给出洞察深刻的见解。(兼职翻译FSF)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Frank Zingrone 是媒体评论家、诗人和文化历史学家, 与Marshall McLuhan和Harold Innis共同研究观念传播。他所工作的学术环境的学者主要研究电子条件下艺术与科学的合并。 Frank Zingrone is a media critic, poet and cultural historian, who works with the communication ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, by building new ideas on their pioneering bases. He works in the intellectual environment characterized by many of the following scholars who epitomize the mergence of the arts and sciences under electric conditions.
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