Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society

Index

Aakhus, M.A., 185–6

‘Apparatgeist’ and perpetual contact,

185–6, 192

abstraction, v, 18n, 32, 128, 151, 153–4,

177, 192

constitutive, 158–61

and the Internet, 162–4

Adorno, Theodor, 34

culture industry, 23–5, 34, 39, 68,

88–9, 119, 141

Frankfurt School, 25, 119

and Max Horkheimer, 24–5, 33, 68,

88–9, 99, 141

advertising, xii, 34, 37, 43n, 44, 50, 66,

77, 87, 95–7, 100, 102, 120n, 149, 201,

212–13

billboards, 105, 201, 215

Agamben, Giorgio, 174

agora, 60, 68, 73, 195–7, 199, 201, 209

cosmopolitan-agora, 196

cyberspace as electronic agora, 60,

195, 199–200

of potential assembly, 17

Alexander, J., 72, 117, 134, 165n

Alford, J., 28

Althusser, Louis, xi, 28–31, 34, 110, 118, 141

Ideological State Apparatus, 28

ideology-in-general, xi, 30, 31, 141

ideology-in-particular, 30, 141

interpellation, xi, 29–30, 34, 88,

110, 141

American Association for the

Advancement of Science’s Program

in Scientific Freedom, Responsibility

and Law (AAAS), 150–1

Anderson, Benedict, 107, 194

imagined communities, 80, 112,

175, 222–3n

Andrejevic, Mark, 219

Anna Voog, 220–1

personal web pages, 220–1

‘the work of being watched’, 220

Ang, Ien, 42n, 112, 120n

Aoki, Kumiko, 204–5

three domains of virtual community, 204

Apple, 98

architectures, 138, 143

broadcast, ix, 9, 13, 20, 53, 66, 95, 99, 110,

133, 146–8, 206, 220, 222

communication, 18n, 130, 206

media, 164, 223n

‘media’ walls, 53

network, ix, 9, 13, 20, 48, 66, 93, 95, 97,

100, 110, 133, 194, 202, 222

social, 83, 89, 99, 154, 165, 169

urban, 168

Arena, 158–60, 164

ARPANET, 47

AT&T, 56

‘attention economy’, 104

audience communities, 123, 176,

194, 210–11

metonymous identification, 214–21

rituals of, 214–21

audience, 8, 21, 23, 25, 34, 36, 40, 43n, 50,

58, 59, 84–6, 89–90, 95, 103, 107–13,

118–19, 122–4, 127, 131, 133–4, 139,

142–4, 146–7, 149, 154, 161, 164, 176,

188, 200, 207, 209, 212, 221

activity, 30, 40, 42n, 50, 58, 70, 112, 143,

145, 148, 155, 156, 171, 174

audience studies, 42n, 58, 101, 111–12,

118–19, 143

friends, 144, 148, 210

hot and cool media, 70–1

para-social interaction, 144, 148, 153

passive, 9, 18n, 22, 40–1, 70, 93, 143, 200,

201, 225n

synchronous and asynchronous, 96,

103–6, 109, 139

see also McLuhan, hot and cool mediums

Aurigi, Alex, 120n

Austin, J.L., 108

Australian Consumers Association, 97

Automatic Teller Machine (ATM), 1, 157

avatar, 62–3, 141–3, 150–1, 190, 198,

202, 224n

bandwidth, 13, 45, 46, 48, 65, 72, 77, 86, 97,

106, 210, 221

Barlow, John Perry, 47, 48

Barlovian cyberspace, 47, 62

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