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the image and the effervescence of large populations. Echoing Lakoff’s charge that the interactivity of on-line communities is n ...
research, he concludes that most accounts of virtual community are over-inflated, and that this has led to a simplistic stereoty ...
two given interlocutors. For them, connectivity is more important than interactivity, and the degree to which a given interactio ...
become self-referential. These two aspects – the spectacle and simulacrum properties of broadcast media – are active in constitu ...
monarchy enjoys almost universal recognition in this capacity, and it is therefore enabled to heighten the moral and civic sensi ...
‘field of vision’, which enables individuals to see things that are ‘far removed from the locales of their day-to-day lives’ (13 ...
convulsions in their life, are always with you Monday to Friday. Thus the ritual involves a constancy of participation, not just ...
which is uneven in its broader social expressions. Whilst, as a general rule, the production of visibility is the foundation of ...
Instead celebrities refer to each other as though they make up the entire population. The familiar statement of the media celebr ...
inner personality, screen stars parasitize their own image to sell themselves in another medium for economic gain. Sites like Wo ...
fame of the star. This affirms not only the privacy of the celebrity, but also the boundary division between media and ordinary. ...
studio metonymically stands in for, is substituted for, a reality which cannot be otherwise represented, such as the audience it ...
updates of news, sport and weather. But what is concealed in the announcement of ‘breaking news’ is the way in which all broadca ...
TThhee ttaallkk sshhooww The genre of the television talk show with a studio audience introduces another source of ‘liveness’ wh ...
on behalf of those millions of viewers who will never get that chance: ‘Talk shows make sense for many performers, as means of d ...
the non-celebrity is expected to perform, they are perceived to have no special agenda to do with some image they are trying to ...
via metonymous identification, watch themselves being watched in a form which is a potential mis-en-abyme. It is possible for a ...
redressing the imbalance between the poles of broadcast circulation. Secondly, the bandwidth and ability to convey complexity in ...
222 COMMUNICATION THEORY time, people who are shy or invalid can pursue community on the basis of interests – again a prophecy o ...
Social? Governmentality and Globalisation’, in Refashioning Sociology: Responses to a New World Order. Brisbane: QUT Publication ...
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