Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
about New Media have been made. This distinction underpins the second media age thesis itself and much of the cyberculture liter ...
Moreover, culturally, the ‘control society’ age of broadcast is said to be fast disappearing. Audiences will not tolerate such s ...
Garth Jowett (1981) has charted how, long before the development of writing, personal seals, portraits on coins and printed illu ...
discussed in computer-mediated communication environments. For example, in the mid-1990s the largest subscriber list of all on U ...
aspects of the commodification of communication. This manifests itself in four ways: (1) as technologies of urbanization, (2) as ...
Adorno and Horkheimer’s point is that mass media both produce media products to satisfy consumer needs as well as produce these ...
If the spectacle, taken in the limited sense of ‘mass media’ which are its most glaring super ficial manifestation, seems to inv ...
Communication and mobile privatization The role of communication in urban cultures cannot simply be reduced to the multiplicatio ...
armchair. Such shells do not have to be physical; indeed, the space in front of a computer screen is one that is intensely perso ...
that bunkering in is about something really simple: being sick of others and tr ying to shelter the beleaguered self in a techno ...
Technological extension Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man – the technological simulation of consciou ...
and consumption of information are typically separated in context and in time, a separation which can be unlimited in its degree ...
mass media. One of the reasons for the crash in dot.com stocks in 1999 was the failure of advertising on the Net as a revenue-ge ...
Media of interactive communication, however, tend to be scarce in advertising and rest on the time-charging of a communicative e ...
deferring to Innis as the classic exponent of this view, that ‘[t]elevision makes it possible to generate vast publics, attuned ...
ideological preconditions of virtual communities. Broadcast communication, in establishing, as Adorno and Horkheimer show, a hor ...
of this connection, when we try to confront the disjunction between two kinds of interaction – face-to-face and disembodied – ca ...
a fine tool for an ‘electronic public journalism’ that is independent from professional media organizations. However, these new ...
accounts of media dominated all of the different schools, from conservative ‘effects’ analysis to radical Marxist accounts of id ...
A key reason why medium theory has rebounded is to do with the fact that the Internet and CMC are so much more visibly seen to b ...
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