Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
even led some commentators to argue that the privatizing concentration of so many context-worlds, be they electronic, architectu ...
by the influence of ‘semiotics’, ‘deconstruction’ and ‘New Criticism’ – was conceived as a matter of studying the meaning of tex ...
between ‘form and content’ such as ‘ritual’ versus transmission accounts of communication. The understanding of communication as ...
The first and second media age – the historical distinction The commitment to the idea of a ‘second media age’ is one that had b ...
By the end of the 1990s the second media age thesis had rapidly become an orthodoxy, and entered the mainstream of New Media thi ...
Rheingold, Negroponte and Lévy, are quite coherent in expressing the way in which they claim that the Internet (and interactive ...
rooted in its decentralized technical structure. Based on ‘packet-switching’, a technical network system developed by Rand Corpo ...
modern forms of state control. To quote from Poster (1997), who is working from a broadly postmodernist point of view, the Inter ...
the point of eclipsing immersion in broadcast environments. There are, however, two problems which come immediately to the fore ...
than others. Then they serve as “mass media” on the platform Internet that allows for all kinds of media and types of communicat ...
international telecommunications satellite system’ (305). For Winston, the networks are as old as telecommunications itself, and ...
(as networks and electronic assemblies).^23 The idea of a CIT of production refers to the consideration of information mediums a ...
When we watch a soap opera, we typically are viewing countless thousands of face-to-face interactions between talking heads, wh ...
Integration and ritual models, on the other hand, look to the kind of background communicative connections which provide the hie ...
8 This debate, between Marxist and postmodern forms of media studies, agreed about the importance of discourse, but conceived en ...
new age in which power is believed to have been given, at last, to the people: to the people, that is, who have access to, and c ...
TWO THEORIES OF BROADCAST MEDIA It is not possible to understand the central dynamics of network communication, or why the secon ...
The media as an extended form of the social – the rise of ‘mass media’ The massive changes wrought by the industrial revolutions ...
The mass/elite model of society has been criticized by Marxist perspectives on communication and more recently within cultural s ...
dangers to freedom than solutions for economic problems (Lipset, 1963: 406). The 1950s renaissance of mass society theory was th ...
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