The late Neil Postman (communications theorist, professor and founder of NYU’s graduate program in media ecology) was decades ahead of his time in predicting the collapse of thoughtful, rational public discourse due to evolving media technologies. By presenting the ideas in Postman’s 1985 (pre-internet) book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” the instructor will challenge you to think more deeply about the profound ways in which media technologies have changed the commonly accepted definition of knowledge itself.