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Cecelia Tichi

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is author of Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America and Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America.

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 TV subverts even the possibility of morality, of human responsibility.

Cecelia Tichi

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