Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
People, Careers, and Communication Research . . . 3
Neil Postman
An Update on Scholarship 2003–2023 . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Neil Postman’s Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A. Neil Postman
and the history of media ecology . . . . . . . . . 7
B. Neil Postman
and the history of General Semantics . . . . . . . 9
C. Neil Postman
and the educational reform movement . . . . . .10
2. Understanding Neil Postman’s Approach . . . . . .11
3. Extending Neil Postman’s Concerns . . . . . . . . . .12
A. Language and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
B. The rise of media ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
C. Transition, and then technopoly . . . . . . . . . . .14
D. A return to education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
E. Expanding Postman’s system . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
F. Postman and ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
4. Conclusions and Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . .16
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Recommended Citation
McCullough, Ryan P.
(2023)
"Neil Postman: An Update on Scholarship 2003–2023,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 42:
No.
4, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol42/iss4/1