Raymond Williams
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One never reads about Brown English concentrators in the news, but those damn semioticians are all over the place. One of them, Steven Johnson, has written a book about why TV and video games aren't as corrosive as people--or rather, people like me--think. It's reviewed here in the Washington Post.

And in an attempt to bury the hatchet in our house-wide (or rather, downstairs-wide) arguments about the relative merits of various media, I'm offering up a picture of Raymond Williams, an English professor who also wrote about televison. Let's hope the Oxford DNB doesn't have people paid to search blogs for copyright infringement.