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