Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, New York. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at NYU.

'Witty and pungent ... if you want to think afresh about who you are and how you came to believe what you believe, start here' Observer 'There are anywhere from three to ten stimulating ideas on every page' Norman Mailer 'Mediated is a rare thing, a mass-market treatment of a complex subject that does more than simply popularise and instead teaches us something new ... De Zengotita's playful book refreshes the parts that the austere disciples of media studies cannot reach, those parts that tell us what the media really does to our sense of self' Financial Times 'A dazzling array of provocative social theories pinned around the idea that the media now permeates every strand of our experience' The Times

Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, New York. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at NYU.

'Witty and pungent ... if you want to think afresh about who you are and how you came to believe what you believe, start here' Observer 'There are anywhere from three to ten stimulating ideas on every page' Norman Mailer 'Mediated is a rare thing, a mass-market treatment of a complex subject that does more than simply popularise and instead teaches us something new ... De Zengotita's playful book refreshes the parts that the austere disciples of media studies cannot reach, those parts that tell us what the media really does to our sense of self' Financial Times 'A dazzling array of provocative social theories pinned around the idea that the media now permeates every strand of our experience' The Times

Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, New York. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at NYU.

'Witty and pungent ... if you want to think afresh about who you are and how you came to believe what you believe, start here' Observer 'There are anywhere from three to ten stimulating ideas on every page' Norman Mailer 'Mediated is a rare thing, a mass-market treatment of a complex subject that does more than simply popularise and instead teaches us something new ... De Zengotita's playful book refreshes the parts that the austere disciples of media studies cannot reach, those parts that tell us what the media really does to our sense of self' Financial Times 'A dazzling array of provocative social theories pinned around the idea that the media now permeates every strand of our experience' The Times