Saturday, November 20, 2004

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.

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.