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Hegemony, Agency, and Dialectical Tension in Ellul's Technological Society, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Rick Clifton Moore. 16 pgs.

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...essay I propose the work of Jacques Ellul for reconceptualizing this relationship...attention to the prolific writings of Jacques Ellul. Elluls theoretical...
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Religion and Technology: A Study in the Philosophy of Culture ("The Antitechnology of Jacques Ellul" begins on p. 16) » Read Now
by Jay Newman. 200 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Religion and technology have always been at the heart of any civilization, says Newman, and the changing relations between them have and will continue to have a powerful influence on social and personal development. Newman begins with a look at religious criticism of technology, most specifically...
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Religion and technology have always been at the heart of any civilization, says Newman, and the changing relations between them have and will continue to have a powerful influence on social and personal development. Newman begins with a look at religious criticism of technology, most specifically the view that technology undermines religious world views, religious practices, and spirituality in general. But what the religious antitechnologist might be misunderstanding, he argues, are the essence of technology, its relation to progress, and its significance as a religious endeavor. Indeed, religion may be a form of technology, or both may be the same as culture itself.
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A Survey of Recent Christian Ethics (Includes discussion of Jacques Ellul in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Edward Leroy Long Jr. 215 pgs.

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...writers are more provocative than Jacques Ellul. One of his translators has said...its heart. 2 Much of what Ellul has subsequently written has been...In his introduction...
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Technologizing of the Word: Toward a Theoretical and Ethical Understanding, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics ("Jacques Ellul: The Humiliation of the Word" begins on p. 100) » Read Now
by George A. Gladney. 13 pgs.

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...Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and Jacques Ellul--whose works are chief contributions...Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and Jacques Ellul. Later, I try to situate the...a 1985...
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Good News: Social Ethics and the Press ("Jacques Ellul's 'La Technique'" begins on p. 168) » Read Now
by Clifford G. Christians, John P. Ferre, P. Mark Fackler. 272 pgs.

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Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrinsically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science--together with a longer tradition in...
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Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrinsically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science--together with a longer tradition in theological inquiry--insist that community, mutuality, and relationship are fundamental to a full concept of personhood. The authors argue that "persons-in-community" provides a more defensible grounding for journalists' professional moral decison-making in crucial areas such as truthtelling, privacy, organizational culture, and balanced coverage. With numerous examples drawn from life as well as from theory, this book will interest journalists, editors, and professionals in media management as well as students and scholars of media ethics, reporting, and media law.
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Media Blight and the Dehumanizing of America (Discussion of Jacques Ellul begins on p. 144) » Read Now
by William K. Shrader. 192 pgs.

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This impassioned critique of contemporary mass culture argues that media, particularly television as the spearhead of the electronic media, contributes to the pervasive demoralization of the American public. By sending the public a stream of enticing, essentially unattainable illusions, the media...
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This impassioned critique of contemporary mass culture argues that media, particularly television as the spearhead of the electronic media, contributes to the pervasive demoralization of the American public. By sending the public a stream of enticing, essentially unattainable illusions, the media produces what Shrader calls the "experiential bind," a phenomenon rooted in the incongruity between the two realms of vicarious and first-hand experience. The internalized bind causes a chronically irritated self-ideal--producing morbid guilt. This condition is familiar to mental health specialists, and is frequently invoked to explain the erratic and socially destructive behavior patterns of the mentally ill.
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The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information ("From Ellul, A Perspective on the Technological Imperative" begins on p. 5) » Read Now
by Oscar H. Gandy Jr. 284 pgs.

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Education and the Rise of the Corporate State (Discussion of Jacques Ellul begins on p. 158) » Read Now
by Joel H. Spring. 206 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Key Thinkers for the Information Society (Chap. 4 "Jacques Ellul") » Read Now
by Christopher May. 195 pgs.

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This work provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's brave new world of information and communication technologies.
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Images of the Future: The Twenty-First Century and Beyond ("Search for an Image" by Jacques Ellul begins on p. 24) » Read Now
by Robert Bundy. 239 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library