Desde el primer contacto que tenemos con los medios de comunicación como la televisión, estamos siendo formados psicológicamente para aceptar y perpetuar un statu quo que debe aparecer como inalterable; al mismo tiempo, los avances en las tecnologías digitales que acogemos con tanto gusto hacen cada ...
Breve entrevista a Jerry Mander en que habla del control de la información ejercido por el capital privado, del poder de la publicidad, y de las nefastas consecuencias sociales de la globalización e industrialización de la producción de alimentos. Mander es el presidente del International Forum on G ...
Ap ril was “Media Awareness Month” at our sons’ school. I took a couple weeks off from the Porch, and I also published a first draft of this piece in the school’s weekly newsletter. When my wife and I met as graduate students, neither of us kept a television around. We always had reading to do, lect ...
I’m currently reading this book. It’s nothing new — it was written in the late 1970’s. But it needs to be resurrected and brought into the public awareness again. When I was a kid, my parents knew some people who didn’t have a TV. My friends and I always thought they were SO. WEIRD. I mean, the thou ...
Não é a primeira vez que Quatro argumentos para acabar com televisão, de Jerry Mander, me vem parar às mãos. Já nos encontramos várias vezes em algumas Feiras do Livro. De todas, li sempre avulsamente alguns parágrafos. Desta vez, deparei-me com um exemplar no Medeia King, em Lisboa, e enquanto a se ...
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander A comparison paper that i did for Englisch class. I was supposed to compare and constrast two things. I chose radio and television, so I could say how dumb television is. Most of the reasoning is based upon Four Arguments for the Elimi ...
share