Television and Consumption
Television has the connotation of plenitude; it seems to embody consumer society as a whole. In many households, a television...
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Listening to the Beat of World Music
Music puts a face on a country in a way no news report ever can. Paul Simon's Graceland album, recorded...
اقرأ المزيدTuning in on 1990: Assessing our Values
Recently the Sisters of the Precious Blood took a "trend census" to evaluate the future directions of society in such...
اقرأ المزيدIf Religious Life is Dying, PR Won’t Save It
Some say that religious life, as the Church has experienced it for the last 200 years, is nearing the end...
اقرأ المزيدPictures Without Bias
Editor's Note (1983): Communications has provided the legs for bias, carrying it from person to person, generation to generation. Communicators...
اقرأ المزيدMapping A Geography of Media
Many people occasionally feel an urgent desire to escape, at least temporarily, to some media-free zone of living. This is...
اقرأ المزيدReflections of a Fading Fan
It happened gradually. The thrill is not gone. but it's fading. The excitement is still present, but so are other...
اقرأ المزيدGLOBAL: Global Consumers Gain New Self-Awareness
The advertising budgets of developing countries are on the rise. This is due mainly to the rapid expansion of commercial...
اقرأ المزيدPASTORING: Religion Must Rethink Military Metaphors
A good phrase deserves, if not demands, a turn or two. So it was at a recent civic gathering that...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: Life Before Television?
Even those of us who remember it have forgotten how much the pictures on the small screen have molded and...
اقرأ المزيدLiteracy for the 21st Century: The Hope and the Promise
Since the beginning of recorded history, the concept of "literacy" meant having the skill to interpret "squiggles" on a piece...
اقرأ المزيدWhy Bother Watching?
When you think about it, watching TV is a really dumb thing to do. It's dumb because there's really no...
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