Paper : Media And Tribalism

1. Provide accurate exposition of Neil Postman’s thesis in the first two chapters of his book, using textual evidence from those chapters as to how he supports his thesis through examples, anecdotes, statistics, print sources, etc.

2. Apply Postman’s thesis to ONE internet/smartphone application of your choice. This could be a search engine such as Google, a Wiki such as Wikipedia, social networking such as Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr, instant messaging such as SnapChat or Instagram, channels such as Vimeo or YouTube, downloadable content such as music from iTunes or Pandora. If you want to use a different application please contact me with your proposal so that we can discuss it before you move ahead.