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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: Too Much Communication?
Description: Listen to Episode No.2 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The guests on today's episode are Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, professors at the University of Illinois. We talk about TMC — Too Much Communication.In the 2000s, people complained about the demand to know more stuff. Not today.It's amazing if you stop to think — if you can find the peace to stop for anything — but such a short time ago, media were about information. Now it's just...