Are there any contemporary authors who provide the critique of

McLuhan and Postman wrote a lot of bullshit but are invaluable in that they teach you to start thinking critically about media itself rather than just what media says.

I haven't come across the new generation of media studies writers who would address things like the internet and smart phones, but I'm sure they must be out there.

>>8936760
I don't know about anything modern but if you like McLuhan you can go back and read Harold Innis's work. McLuhan said:
>I am pleased to think of my own book The Gutenberg Galaxy as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences, first of writing then of printing.

Innis's Empire and Communications is here:
https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/innis-empire/innis-empire-00-h.html

>redpilled

Back to your containment board. Read Baudrillard though.

Walter Ong might help. Baudrillard is good too.

>>8936951
Kill yourself, Reddit.

20th C panic over television seems really fucking retarded in retrospect.

A bit dated, but Julian Dibbell's A Rape in Cyberspace is a seminal essay on the early web. Dibbell was quite prescient in noting that online interaction may inspire a reorientation of, or even a challenge to, our understanding of free speech, which we're currently seeing with the 'SJW' types. It even features a proto-4chan type character

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/a-rape-in-cyberspace-6401665

He's written some other stuff which may or may be of interest but I haven't read any of it.

>>8936973
>implying society wasn't already ruined in exactly the ways they predicted and we aren't just used to living in hell

>>8936760

You Are Not a Gadget

>>8936760

In descending order of relevance:

Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin, "Remediation: Understanding New Media"

N. Katherine Hayles, "How We Became Posthuman"

Richard E. Miller, "Writing at the End of the World"

>>8938111
oh yeah smart guy? then what am i?

Slavoj Zizek and Alain de Botton.