Review:
Jon Katz, the media critic for Wired magazine, has written a controversial and much-needed book exploring the "cultural civil war" over values that has developed with the emergence of the new media. Katz stands all sorts of common wisdom on its head. Are the Net, MTV, live cable talk shows, video, and computer games corroding our values? Are new electronic technologies dumbing down our society? Do pop culture, violent computer games, and spending time online create violent kids with short attention spans? Will the Net isolate us and destroy civic ties? Most pundits say "yes" to these questions, but Katz responds with an emphatic "no!" Don't swallow what the doomsday sensationalists are predicting until you read this book.
About the Author:
Jon Katz is a media critic and novelist. He is Contributing Editor of Wired Magazine and has written for GQ, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York and other magazines. He is a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. He was listed as one of the country's most influential media critics in a survey conducted by the Gannett Center's Freedom Forum Foundation in 1995.
He has published five novels. He was formerly Executive Producer of the CBS Morning News and a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of the "Media Rant" column on HotWired's The Netizen.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter, and is at work on his second nonfiction book.
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