A two reviews of Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms our Lives, and an interview where he elaborates/clarifies some of his ideas.
From TheBrothers Judd--a conservative book review site. They find Gitlin to be long on analysis, short on solutions, and that is because they think they solutions = old fashioned values of family, church, community. Great set of links below the review.
A more sympathetic review from Claire Zulky at PopMatters, although she and others she quotes are also frustrated by Gitlin's lack of a game plan.
Gitlin was interviewed for Salon.com.
This book got a lot of attention; feel free to point out other discussions of it on the web.
Visual Culture and Language
This weblog supports a course called "Visual Culture and Language" taught at North Dakota State University since the Fall of 2003. It is being taught in the Spring semester, 2007, and generally will be on a two year cycle.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Perhaps only 51% of students will agree with the sentiment of this collective photo essay, Sorry Everybody, but even dissenters can see a recipe for visual expression.