The metaphysics of media
Subtitle: toward an end to postmodern cynicism and the construction of a virtuous reality
By: Peter K. Fallon
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Scranton [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781589662025
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Why a metaphysics of media? : why should anyone care?; title: On the utility of the media ecological perspective as a tool in the study of the metaphysics of a culture; title: The contentious nature of objective reality and the inarguable value of truth; title: Orality; title: The metaphysics of orality; title: Literacy; title: The metaphysics of literacy; title: Electric culture; title: The metaphysics of electric culture; title: In the dark : the survival of ignorance in an age of information; title: Appendix: An explanation of the media ecological principles; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.