Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
‘plastic in its interactive possibilities: A typical personal computer might have e-mail, Web chat, RealAudio, word-processing a ...
they operate as a reserve for processing information. The individual consumption of media may be unpredictable and anonymous, bu ...
images received’ (Thompson, 1995: 89–90). Thus, many face-to-face conversations have a reference to TV as their content. However ...
persons appearing on documentaries, reality TV programmes, and the high visibility of members of a ‘live’ audience. Broadcast i ...
However, to continue to view this architecture in terms of ‘interaction’ becomes problematic, a matter which even Thompson has r ...
of consciousnesses in their person. The intensity of such concentration can have substantial consequences for the distribution o ...
systemic reality. Most Internet identities are avatars for whom reciprocity is not possible. For reciprocity to be successful th ...
As demonstrated by the AAAS exercise, the idea that the ‘rights’ of avatars need to be protected is again a function of their lo ...
interaction which Thompson specifies has brought about new social fields and changes to the nature of work, public/private divis ...
‘para-social’ interaction, Couldry discusses the ritualized meeting between the ‘media person’ (celebrity) and the ‘ordinary per ...
The particular social integration perspective which is to be introduced here has a number of exponents, who, from varying and qu ...
better visibility. ‘Media, like walls and windows, can hide and they can reveal. Media can create a sense of sharing and belongi ...
which permits any kind of intimacy or many-sided recognition (Calhoun, 1986: 332). Calhoun wishes to add tertiary and quaternary ...
them, is, argues Calhoun, eased by the widespread development of tertiary relationships. Whilst some may see technologically med ...
In other words, Calhoun perceives a tension between the capacity of tertiary relationships to enhance and regenerate primary one ...
up the structure of what we still take to be the mainstream life of society. Of course such members of the intellectually relate ...
This level corresponds to what Cooley and Calhoun call ‘secondary relationships’. ‘Disembodied integration is the level at which ...
‘finding connection’ by means of tele-mediation may seem anachronistic for persons formed in this way. When agency-extended inte ...
Thus, for Williams, agents have a moral obligation to give carriage to what is commonly approved and controlled, and where the a ...
physically absent’ (93–4). For Giddens, these regularized transactions become system-like within time-space envelopes that have ...
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