Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA26063 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:20:08 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [68.6.177.209] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Media and Violence Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:14:08 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F69cmbnJCfy904000006cd@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Apr 2002 14:14:08.0562 (UTC) FILETIME=[78877920:01C1E7AC] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Media and Violence
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:53:53 +0100
>
>Hi All,
>
>This just dropped in my inbox.
>
>The link goes to some interesting question, which I have not followed
>through to the end yet.
>
>It's an email 'dialogue' between James Fallows of Atlantic Monthly and Todd
>Gitlin, a professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York
>University. Fallows and Gitlin are discussing the latter's new book - Media
>Unlimited:
>'I've thought about the argument of your book often in the past week, and
>not just because I knew I'd have a chance to ask you questions about it.
>The
>heart of your message, or so it seems to me, is that we don't spend enough
>time thinking about how awash we are in artificial stimuli of all sorts. '
>(Fallows).
>This is a stimulating exchange.
>
>http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fallows/jf2002-04-03/
>
>Regards
>
>Steve
>
This is another article that jangled a few of my bells. I haven't read the
book in question, but I do think that the constant clamor and competition
for our attention gets in the way of single-minded pursuit of anything. We
no longer have the luxury of being able to narrow our focus to a single task
at hand and give it our full attention. I don't know what that is doing to
us, but I do feel it's causing changes in the way we view the world and
interact with it. What I don't know is if it's for better or for worse. I
may have to get me to a monastary to check it out.
Grant
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