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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joshua Meyrowitz |
ISBN: | 0195034740 9780195034745 019504231X 9780195042313 |
OCLC Number: | 10483271 |
Notes: | Beloit College notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 374-390. |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 1986 "Best Book on Electronic Media" Award of the National Association of Broadcasters and the Broadcast Education Association Winner of the 2014 International Communication Association's Fellows Book Award. |
Description: | xv, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Behavior in Its Place -- Part I : Media as Change Mechanisms. Media and Behavior : A Missing Link ; Media, Situations, and Behavior ; Why Roles Change When Media Change -- Part II : 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 -- Part III : The New Social Landscape. New Group Identities ; New Ways of Becoming ; Questioning Authority ; Effect Loops -- Part IV : 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? |
Responsibility: | Joshua Meyrowitz. |
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Local System Bib Number: | u21585 |
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... a classic book, richly deserving of the ICA 2014 Fellows Book Award, for its own merit and for the impact on the scholarship of others. No Sense of Place is a landmark in theorizing about media. * Dafna Lemish, International Communication Association * One of the most ambitious, refreshing, and provocative attempts to expand our understanding of communications technologies. * Technology Review * Provocative.... Compelling.... An original and eclectic theory for studying the impact of any medium at any place and in any time. * Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media * Meyrowitz takes a panoramic view of American culture - its politics, its gender relations, its educational standards, its attitudes toward history and literacy, and much more.... He's a fine example of an interdisciplinary risk-taker. * Christian Science Monitor * Among the most important books on media yet written; a masterful piece of scholarship. * Channels * No Sense of Place is an original and deeply perceptive analysis of how the media have come to alter the texture of everyday experience. It is a stimulating work, with insights springing up on every page like wildflowers on a mountain. Written with a poet's sensitivity and a scientist's analytic precision, the book is a luminous contribution to the social psychology of our time * Stanley Milgram, author of Obedience to Authority * Brilliant.... a theoretical tour de force. * Journal of Communication * No Sense of Place is a cornucopia in the grand style: a breathtaking flurry of crisp insights, homey illustrations, ingenious tropes.... gives the reader full value in erudition and liveliness. * Quarterly Journal of Speech * Read more...
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