Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
THREE THEORIES OF CYBERSOCIETY Cyberspace Throughout October 1999, concerts were held in London, New York and Geneva to launch ‘ ...
Whilst the term ‘cyberspace’, which first appeared in the prophetic fiction writing of William Gibson, is most frequently used t ...
the element of community’, because he maintains that a single person does not exist in cyberspace, but in virtual reality (Ostwa ...
networks is sometimes called Barlovian cyberspace, so named after John Perry Barlow (Grateful Dead band member), who applied Gib ...
The Internet and its sub-media However, whilst ‘cyberspace’ brings about new possibilities of association, the form they take is ...
This capacity enables also the possibility of sophisticated reciprocity in a way which displaces modes of reciprocity in face-to ...
level of freneticness that has become acceptable to television viewers, and now commonplace in nearly every rapid-cycle televisi ...
power of broadcast media is one that is most forcefully put by second media age theorists. In film, radio and television, a smal ...
primary forms of cultural mediation in information societies since the Second World War. The important point here is that it is ...
These ‘media’ walls are the result of the architecture of broadcast itself. As we saw with Debord in the previous chapter, the m ...
screens, developing face-to-screen relations rather than face-to-face relations, but this opposition is no longer significant, a ...
group. A symptom of this is the fact that CMC literature is often concerned with how individuals try to develop ways of substitu ...
Shannon and Weaver separated information content from the means of its carriage. ... While Shannon and Weaver’s information theo ...
The combination of utopianism and anxiety which is expressed there seemed futuristic in the 1940s and indeed is in many ways typ ...
of communication is in postulating what ‘a message’ actually is. For Gerbner, a message never exists in some kind of raw state w ...
insisted that mass communication needed a different methodological approach from personal communication makes his work useful fo ...
CCMMCC aass ccyybbeerrssppaaccee The benefit of the process models for studying the second media age is that they provide a depa ...
Paradoxically, these cafés, which are frequented by those interested in tapping into the civics of cyberspace, at the same time ...
In many virtual spaces anonymity is complete. Participants may change their names at will and no record is kept connecting names ...
This mobility is highly evident in the phenomenon of the widening generation gap between adults and adolescents (see Holmes and ...
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