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Article: Todd Gitlin, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives.
- Article from:
- American Studies International
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001), 260 pp., $25.00 (cloth)
In the introduction to Media Unlimited, Todd Gitlin writes that he has, "been reading and writing about media for more than twenty-five years" (1). His book, however, is what he considers a departure from what and how he has written about "media" in the past. "Dissatisfied, too, with what others were writing and saying [about media]," Gitlin sets out to analyze not the content of media, but rather, "the nature of the forest:" media itself (1). An ambitious goal, indeed. Gitlin, like many other scholars of media and technology, is fascinated and concerned that for "a society that fancies itself the ...