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In Media and the Power of Knowledge , Fuller traces the evolution of how the media has transformed global and social knowledge. The book draws a line from the printing press to the rise of electrical and electronic communication, and analyses how the emergence of our public sphere has developed. Fuller points to the spread of publishing and the rise of technology such as telegraphy that allowed researchers to connect, and allowed the first forms of collective intelligence to flourish. With the invention of the internet, globally accessible information has become possible and has fundamentally altered how we form public opinion. Media and the Power of Knowledge also looks at the role of media moguls and the function of the critic, pundit and broadcaster, and investigates how the balance of power has shifted in recent years. Clearly structured and presenting provocative arguments, this book considers the likely future developments of the media and its far-reaching implications for the human condition.>
List of contents
Introduction: A Look at the Course Ahead
1. Variations on Some Themes by McLuhan: The Medium Has Always Been the Message
2. Walter Lippmann and the Public Relations of Progressivism in the American Century
3. Democratizing the Intellect in the Post-Truth Condition
4. Media and the Power of Religious Knowledge
5. From Twitter Back to Aphorism, and the Fate of Knowledge
References
Index
Report
Media and the Power of Knowledge takes the reader on a remarkable tour of media and message past and present, making stopovers at unexpected and fascinating places, from medieval controversies about the nature of salvation to experimentation in the Scientific Revolution to 20th-century debates about the heart and soul of American Progressivism. Sharon Rider, Professor, Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden
