Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Across
  1. 3. The author who warned that we would be controlled by fear, censorship, and the banning of books.
  2. 5. The study of how a culture determines what constitutes valid knowledge and truth.
  3. 6. The situational framework needed to make information useful, meaningful, and actionable.
  4. 9. A structure, like a crossword puzzle or trivia game, designed to give irrelevant information a temporary purpose.
  5. 10. The author who warned that we would be controlled by pleasure, trivia, and distraction.
Down
  1. 1. According to Postman, the essential content and filter of all television discourse.
  2. 2. Pertaining to the era of the printed word, characterized by logical, sequential, and serious disourse.
  3. 4. A form of discourse that requires sustained attention, linear reasoning, and a high degree of literacy.
  4. 7. Postman argues this is the most significant and pervasive unit of political discourse in the television age.
  5. 8. The 19th-century invention that made relevance a matter of geography rather than function, shattering context.