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Technopoly – The Academic Course

Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Vintage, 1993. Another take-away from Technopoly is somewhat oddly-founded, as it is based on a bit of a tangent that Postman pursues as an example of technologies coming in disguise (in Chapter 8: Invisible Technologies). He disc...

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Technopoly

"Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely he way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant" (48). Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology...

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Black Box Fallacy

“Media convergence impacts the way we consume media.” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. Black Box Fallacy Jenkins coined the “Black Box Fallacy” in response to the common argument that “all media content is going to flow t...

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