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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey ScheuerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138178984ISBN 10: 1138178985 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 23 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews...refreshing. Whatever your political persuasion, however, The Sound Bite Society offers an interesting... take on what shapes the politics of television. -- NationalJournal.com Irrespective of whether one fully agrees with Scheuer's thesis, [The Sound Bite Society] will be very useful in stimulating active discussion in classes dealing with political communication and the media. -- Susan Tyler Eastman, Communication Booknotes Quarterly ... a true intellectual discourse, an essay in the realm of ideas. -- The Jerusalem Post Thoughtful, in many ways amazing. Part polemic and part rainbow of dazzling insights. -- Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation The most searching book I have seen on television's assault on our psyches and our society. Scheuer emerges as not only a first-rank scholar of the media but a philosopher of the media. -- Daniel Schorr, Senior Analyst, National Public Radio Beautifully written and powerfully argued...social criticism of the best kind. -- Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study Breaks new intellectual ground...deeply incisive. -- Chicago Tribune Valuable... -- James Fallows, Washington Monthly Exceptional...unusually well-argued and supported. -- The Eye, Toronto An insightful but profoundly unsettling volume. -- Dissent Scheuer aims to intrigue and provoke and he does [so] on every page. -- Boston Review ...refreshing. Whatever your political persuasion, however, The Sound Bite Society offers an interesting... take on what shapes the politics of television. -- NationalJournal.com Irrespective of whether one fully agrees with Scheuer's thesis, [The Sound Bite Society] will be very useful in stimulating active discussion in classes dealing with political communication and the media. -- Susan Tyler Eastman, Communication Booknotes Quarterly ... a true intellectual discourse, an essay in the realm of ideas. -- The Jerusalem Post Thoughtful, in many ways amazing. Part polemic and part rainbow of dazzling insights. -- Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation The most searching book I have seen on television's assault on our psyches and our society. Scheuer emerges as not only a first-rank scholar of the media but a philosopher of the media. -- Daniel Schorr, Senior Analyst, National Public Radio Beautifully written and powerfully argued...social criticism of the best kind. -- Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study Breaks new intellectual ground...deeply incisive. -- Chicago Tribune Valuable... -- James Fallows, Washington Monthly Exceptional...unusually well-argued and supported. -- The Eye, Toronto An insightful but profoundly unsettling volume. -- Dissent Scheuer aims to intrigue and provoke and he does [so] on every page. -- Boston Review Author InformationJeffrey Scheuer writes about politics and media. His criticism and commentary has appeared in The New YorkTimes, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Los AngelesTimes and Dissent. He lives in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |