Barney, Darin, 191
Barr, Trevor, 8, 79, 95
Baudelaire, Charles, flânerie, 197–8
Baudrillard, Jean, xi, 5, 10, 27, 31, 36–8, 39,
43n, 51, 69, 106, 107, 118, 120n, 133, 143
hyperreal, 31, 38, 43n, 107
obscene, 105, 107
simulacrum, 36, 38, 39, 43n, 100, 118,
119, 128, 135, 207
Baym, Nancy, 87, 97
audience community and network
community, 176, 194, 210
contexts of CMC, 63–4, 67
Becker, Barbara, 76–7, 79, 81
‘partial publics’, 76, 79, 81
behaviourism, x, 5, 18n, 23, 42, 112, 194
Bell, Daniel, 7, 22, 170
‘end of ideology’, 22
multi-stranded community, 170–1
Benedikt, M., Judeo-Christian narratives
of cyberspace, 190
Benjamin, Walter, flânerie, 197–9
Bennett, Tony, 21–2, 42n
Big Brother, 219–20
Bolter, J.D., and Grusin, R., 19n, 38, 43n,
66, 130
hypermediacy, 130
remediation, 19n, 43n
Boorstin, Daniel J., 31–3, 43n
‘homogenisation of experience’, 33
Bott, Elizabeth, 99, 166n
Bourdieu, Pierre, 108
Brecht, Bertolt, 19n
broadcast, 11–14, 17, 20–43, 44–5, 49–53, 55,
57, 59, 64–7, 70, 72–3, 78–80, 82n,
83–121, 122–3, 132–3, 135, 137–41, 142,
143, 144–9, 150, 154, 155, 161, 164, 167,
176, 177, 194, 195, 200, 206–21
architecture, ix, 9, 13, 20, 53, 66, 95, 99,
110, 133, 146–8, 206, 220, 222
authority of, 215, 216
‘The Broadcast Era’, 85, 102
broadcast event, 103–6, 109, 111–12
as constitutive of media ‘mass’, 102
convergence thesis, xi
dependence on, 3
interactivity, ix, xi, 10, 12, 50, 84–6, 97–8,
100, 115, 122, 148
maintenance of social order, 207
mediation of visibility, 208–9
mutually constitutive with network
integration, 83–6
network mediums parasitic on
broadcast, xi, 12, 52, 79, 86–7, 90,
95, 104, 105broadcast, cont.
public sphere, 80, 102
reciprocity without interaction, 144–9,
161, 195, 211, 217
rethinking of, 101–19
sociological approach to, ix-x
broadcast communities, x, xiii, 122,
206–21, 222
in news, 215–16
reality TV, 219–20
rituals of, 214–20
symbolic inequality of, 34, 105, 210–14
talk shows, 217–19
Brosnan, M., technophobia, 183, 188
Buzzard, K.S.F., 18n, 96, 121ncable, 1, 8, 66, 94, 97, 102, 109, 110, 111,
121n, 149, 215
Caldwell, J., 120n
Calhoun, Craig, xii, 43n, 154, 160, 164,
166n, 178
efficiency of communication, 202
phenomenological levels of
socialization, 155–8
capitalism, 4, 6, 9, 24–8, 31, 32, 34, 74, 77,
82n, 88, 89, 91, 173–4, 207, 221
Carey, James, xii, 6, 15, 39, 46, 117, 215, 219
anthropological or ritual approach, xii,
133–135, 208
divertissement, 133
status conflict in communication, 219
uses and gratification model, 134
Carkeek, Freya, 148, 159, 160
cartoon, 70, 71, 120n
Castells, Manuel, 8, 43n, 48, 85, 204–5
interactive society, 8
CBS, 21, 120n
celebrity, 24, 35, 52, 82n, 212–14, 218–19
as the last flâneur, 214
Celebdaq and Hollywood SX, 212
deaths of, 109, 111, 214, 224n
and non-celebrity, 34–5, 105, 153, 211,
212–13, 217–18, 219, 220–1, 224n
and scandal, 214
and symbolic inequalities, 34,
105, 210–14
WorldLive.com, 213
Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies (CCCS), 17n
Certeau, Michel de, 117,
176, 177
‘space is a practiced place’, 176
Chan-Olmsted, S., 96
Chapman, Mark David, 225n
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