Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
application’ (74). Thirdly, to the degree that institutional arrangements allow, availability in time-space is enhanced. ‘Organi ...
Rather, what is true of all of the integration perspectives is that in each of the ‘levels’ of social integration, individuals a ...
in the receiver position before he or she can send anything.... Human communication is never one-way. Always, it not only calls ...
SIX TELECOMMUNITY Rethinking community For a term that is so over-used in media publics, it is remarkable how under-theorized ‘c ...
Classical theories of community Until recently, conventional usages of the term ‘community’ in the human sciences had tended to ...
public life – it is the world itself. ‘One goes into Gesellschaft(society) as one goes into a strange country’ (38). In contrast ...
escape, and when they do escape, they typically take all kinds of risks, as a means of rebellion and compensation for a life cou ...
of movement, to ‘travel’ weightlessly, whether corporeally or in the imagination, is to establish networks of communication in w ...
and governmental contexts which might give either ‘instrumental’ or ‘value-rational’ kinds of action any kind of solid meaning. ...
global communities – virtual communities, the Olympic community, the ‘international community’.^2 Globalization and social conte ...
contemporary form, promotes individuation and difference, and it is this right to individuation and difference which is left ove ...
In the wake of such erosion, community, on the one hand, retreats to micro-communities, and, on the other hand, reaches out to m ...
interactions is. Rituals are concerned more with this routinization than they are with trying to identify with the same ideas or ...
consequences. In practising places, it makes no difference whether they are global or local senses of place, corporeal or electr ...
Sociality with media As identified in the previous chapter, medium theory has a habit of differentiating social forms according ...
particular technology could be said to carry a spirit or Geist which defines an age. Secondly, he rightly points out that few an ...
networks; indeed, they are typically mutually constitutive. Where technical embeddedness becomes more and more normative, other ...
media societies, individuals everywhere encounter themselves in a world which becomes closed and virtualized, which, as the stor ...
use of different technologies, or to overcome the malfunction or dysfunction of technology, Heidegger argues that technological ...
our orientation toward objects as sources of the self, of relational intimacy, of shared subjectivity and of social integration’ ...
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