No Sense of Place The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

Name: No Sense of Place The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
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ISBN: 9780195042313

ISBN-10: 019504231X

ISBN-13: 9780195042313

Edition: 1985

Authors: Joshua Meyrowitz

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How has television affected our everyday experience? This question has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media create new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" us. While other media experts have limited the debate to program content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which television has rearranged "who knows what about whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. He shows how television has lifted…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 8.50" wide x 5.43" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction: Behavior in Its Place



Media as Change Mechanisms


Media and Behavior: A Missing Link


Media, Situations, and Behavior


Why Roles Change When Media Change



From Print Situations to Electronic Situations


The Merging of Public Spheres


The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors


The Separation of Social Place from Physical Place



The New Social Landscape


New Group Identities


New Ways of Becoming


Questioning Authority


Effect Loops



Three Dimensions of Social Change


The Merging of Masculinity and Femininity


The Blurring of Childhood and Adulthood


Lowering the Political Hero to Our Level



Conclusion


Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?


Appendix: Discussion of Terms


Notes


Bibliography


Index