{"id":51020,"date":"2021-09-13T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/13\/reading-and-analyzing-part-i-of-neil-postmans-amusing-ourselves-to-death-aotd\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:38:46","slug":"reading-and-analyzing-part-i-of-neil-postmans-amusing-ourselves-to-death-aotd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/13\/reading-and-analyzing-part-i-of-neil-postmans-amusing-ourselves-to-death-aotd\/","title":{"rendered":"reading and analyzing PART I of Neil Postman&#8217;s Amusing Ourselves to Death (AOTD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study Questions for AOTD CHs 2-4. <br \/>We will continue our way in reading and analyzing PART I of AOTD (see Table of Contents for useful overview). As we proceed, try to hold in your mind what each chapter is focused on; it is to also very helpful to select and mark a few pages\/passages that you think are central\/important to the respective chapters and get at its main points (hint: these will be very helpful to have on hand for upcoming larger assignments). <br \/>NOTE:Upon completion of AOTD&#8211;Part One, there will follow Class Discussion activities, aiming at sharing thoughts\/central ideas throughout the class. <br \/>Be sure to review comments on the previous Study Questions Assignment, point deductions will be stricter for this assignment. <br \/>Ch2 <br \/>Describe and explain Postman\u2019s three examples of \u201ctruth-telling\u201d used to contrast oral communication versus typography. <br \/>Find Postman\u2019s THESIS rephrased on p.27 <br \/>Ch3 <br \/>Quote and explain three different examples of how typography was important in 18th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Questions for AOTD CHs 2-4. We will continue our way in reading and analyzing PART I of AOTD (see Table of Contents for useful overview). As we proceed, try to hold in your mind what each chapter is focused on; it is to also very helpful to select and mark a few pages\/passages that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-51020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}