Confronting Technopoly

Confronting TechnopolyIn 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and as it is seen and understood in contemporary society. Contributors present both analysis of and strategies for managing socio technical conflict, and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of

Exploring the shared professional ideals of journalists

covering the most up-to-date topics in Chinese cinema studies appearing for the first time in English

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and how their ideals relating to their work are expressed and aspired to in everyday practice

Against the backdrop of cutting-edge developments in electronic art

It includes insightful essays by a group of international contributors and interviews with important practitioners

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Offering an in-depth exploration of art’s contingent evolution with technology and digital culture

demonstrating the possibility of intense interdisciplinary collaboration

the book was greeted with enthusiasm by film studies scholars