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Amusing Ourselves to Death: The Comic

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 27, 2009in Academic, Values In Design1 Comment

Neil Postman is one of the primary reasons I decided to leave Milwaukee in 2001 and move to New York City to pursue my graduate education. While searching for schools, I had discovered of the department Postman founded at NYU,…

Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 4, 2008in Platforms, Values In Design6 Comments

Blogging has been light lately as I'm visiting family over the holiday break. Today, however, I came across one of my favorite essays by the late Neil Postman, cultural critic and founder of my PhD-granting department at NYU, and felt…