Yes, it is still relevant to today and I suggest anyone read it. As much for the shock about what they knew about the effects of advertising, even back then. Not sure how the science holds up today, but a good discussion about how television (and likely internet video) short-circuit parts of the brain necessary for critical thinking.
I haven’t read it, thanks for the pointer.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is a 1978 book by Jerry Mander, “who argues that many of the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus cannot be reformed”
Boy, the same concept applied to the iPad and iPhone medium and technology…
The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser’s influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation. The bubble effect may have negative implications for civic discourse
Yes, it is still relevant to today and I suggest anyone read it. As much for the shock about what they knew about the effects of advertising, even back then. Not sure how the science holds up today, but a good discussion about how television (and likely internet video) short-circuit parts of the brain necessary for critical thinking.