{"product_id":"media-unlimited-todd-gitlin-9780805086898","title":"Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoth a startling analysis and a charged polemic, this revised edition of \u003ci\u003eMedia Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the unending stream of manufactured images and sounds as a defining feature of our civilization and a perverse culmination of Western hopes for freedom. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an afterword by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, sociology professor and cultural historian Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of relentless sensation, instant transition, and nonstop stimulus, which he argues is anything but progress. He shows how all media, all the time fuels celebrity worship, paranoia, and irony, and how attempts to ward off the onrush become occasion for yet more media. Far from bringing about a \"new information age,\" Gitlin argues, the digital torrent has fostered a society of disposable emotions and casual commitments, and threatens to make democracy a sideshow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Todd Gitlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805086897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805086898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Todd Gitlin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926241116415,"sku":"9780805086898","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a0c85e93-4b66-4437-ad57-c877dee91eea.jpg?v=1681081980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/media-unlimited-todd-gitlin-9780805086898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}