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Baudrillard and the media : a critical introduction / William Merrin.

By: Merrin, William.
Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2005Description: v, 190 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0745630731 (pbk.); 9780745630731 (pbk.).Subject(s): Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 | Mass media -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 302.23092
Contents:
1. Television is killing the art of symbolic exchange: Baudrillard's theory of communication - 2. To play with phantoms: the evil demon of the simulacrum - 3. Are friends electric? Baudrillard's critique of McLuhan - 4. The delirious spectacle of the non-event - 5. Shreds of war rotting in the desert - 6. 'Total screen': 9/11 and the gulf war: reloaded - 7.'The matrix has you' : viruality and social control - 8.'The saving power' : the 'reflex miracle' of photography.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Television is killing the art of symbolic exchange: Baudrillard's theory of communication - 2. To play with phantoms: the evil demon of the simulacrum - 3. Are friends electric? Baudrillard's critique of McLuhan - 4. The delirious spectacle of the non-event - 5. Shreds of war rotting in the desert - 6. 'Total screen': 9/11 and the gulf war: reloaded - 7.'The matrix has you' : viruality and social control - 8.'The saving power' : the 'reflex miracle' of photography.