"To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity."
-Neil Postman, 1985

#AmusingOurselvesToDeath

#MediaLiteracy #MediaConsciousness #Writing #Literacy #Reading

One of my favorites:

"...every epistemology is the epistemology of a state of media development. Truth, like time itself, is a product of a conversation man has with himself about and through the techniques of communication he has invented."
-Neil Postman, 1985

#AmusingOurselvesToDeath

#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #Philosophy #Epistemology #MediaConsciousness

"Whether we are experiencing the world through the lens of speech or the printed word or the television camera, our media-metaphors classify the world for us, sequence it, frame it, enlarge it, reduce it, color it, argue a case for what the world is like."
-Neil Postman, 1985

#AmusingOurselvesToDeath

#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #media #MediaConsciousness

"Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility."
-Neil Postman, 1985

#AmusingOurselvesToDeath

#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #MediaConsciousness