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COPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. Todd Gitlin. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002.
In his latest book about US mass media, sociologist Todd Gitlin implores readers to take media images and sounds more seriously by contemplating the impact of their torrent, in its totality, on individuals and society. Gitlin has been fascinated with the subject of media processes and effects since his earliest interactions with the news media in the 1960s as president of Students for a Democratic Society, which became the focus of his book, The Whole World Is Watching:...
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