COM 170 Communication Environments

Assignment 9     Postman Chapters 1-2

Chapter 1

1.  Postman says that "The way we conduct a conversation...influence what it is convenient to express."  What three messages do you think you could send using only smoke signals?

2.  What does Postman mean (or anyone, for that matter) by epistemology?

Chapter 2

3.  What in the world are "typographic" people, according to Postman?

4.  Does Postman argue that "television people" are less developed intellectually than "typographic people?"

5.  Do you think that "television people" are less developed intellectually than "typographic people?"

6.  Postman refers to a "Tocqueville."  What is this person's full name and the name of the book Postman cites?