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Are your thoughts truly your own, or just recycled sound bites from the news? Do you experience the fullness of life firsthand, or are you separated from life by the endless barrage of media and marketing messages which tell you to speed up and catch up? Are you losing nourishing connections to other people by looking at a screen all day? Have you become a consumer instead of a creator? Media overload is threatening our health and quality of life, our relationships and, most critically, the intellectual and social development of our children. Dr Thomas Cooper, one of the world's leading advocates for media responsibility, has created a timely, essential guide for making conscious choices about our relationship to mass media, and reclaiming our lives and families from media oversaturation. Create balance in your life with Fast Media/Media Fast, and find your life richer and more fulfilling.
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Dr. Thomas Cooper is Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Boston's Emerson College. Before joining the faculty at Emerson, Cooper taught at Harvard University, University of Hawaii, and other leading universities. A former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, he now serves as speechwriter for Jochen Zeitz, CEO of Puma.
Cooper is the author or co-author of six previous books and over a hundred academic and professional articles on media ethics and related topics. He has co-produced ethics programs and panels between media professionals and academics, won numerous awards, and has consulted for such groups as the Elders project which includes Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, and Desmond Tutu.
In 1986, the Association for Responsible Communication, which Cooper founded, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The same year, he co-founded Media Ethics magazine; he currently serves as its Co-Publisher.
Cooper holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, CBC, and the Discovery Channel, and been quoted or reviewed by such publications as The New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. He lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Praise for Fast Media/Media Fast, By Thomas W Cooper, PhD
"In this century of media overload, I, like many others, find it crucial to find balance. Fast Media/Media Fast is an incredibly helpful guide toward personal balance and creating a consciousness for coping with one of the most pressing issues of our hyper-mediated society."
Jochen Zeitz, Chairman and CEO, Puma; Leader in the Corporate Social Responsibility movement
"Few have stood firmer for ethical principles in the unremitting media wasteland than Tom Cooper. He is not a straw but a pillar for us all to grasp."
Robert Gardner, Film-Maker, Anthropologist;
Professor, Harvard University
"In this fascinating and original book, Tom Cooper shows us how to step outside of the media maelstrom and find a kind of peace and perspective that can transform our lives and the world. Both practical and visionary, he helps us redefine and reclaim connection and attachment and reap surprising rewards."
Jean Kilbourne, EdD, Creator of the Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women film series;
Senior Scholar, the Wellesley Centers for Women
"A feast on fasting from the most creative mind in our field. The intellectual and literary context is of Mt. Kilimanjaro magnificence, and its practical wisdom inspires our transformation."
-- Dr. Clifford Christians, Research Professor of Communications Emeritus, University of Illinois
"A clarion voice for consciousness. Cooper manages to present an impeccably-researched case that is inclusive, balanced and invites us to make the kind of changes that feel right in our lives and families. This book is a path to connectedness, to our families and to ourselves."
Kim John Payne, MEd, Author of Simplicity Parenting
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