The metaphysics of media: toward an end to postmodern cynicism and the construction of a virtuous reality

Abstract

Preface -- Introduction: Why a metaphysics of media? : why should anyone care? -- On the utility of the media ecological perspective as a tool in the study of the metaphysics of a culture -- The contentious nature of objective reality and the inarguable value of truth -- Orality -- The metaphysics of orality -- Literacy -- The metaphysics of literacy -- Electric culture -- The metaphysics of electric culture -- In the dark : the survival of ignorance in an age of information -- Appendix: An explanation of the media ecological principles