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Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business: By Neil Postman New York: Viking, 1985, Penguin, 1986, 180 pp., $15.95 (cloth), $6.95 (paper)
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(1988). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. The Social Science Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 386-388.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shanahan, D.
- Venue
- The Social Science Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1988-09-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 386-388
- ISSN
- 0362-3319 (ISSN-L)
- 1873-5355
- OpenAlex
- W2318030727
- Cited by
- 1,761
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 92.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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