recognition, 30, 33–4, 100, 110, 121n, 134,
145, 148–9, 151, 156–7, 164, 208, 211–12
community and, 98, 122, 168, 174
face-to-face, 92
field of, 19n, 22, 36, 111, 151, 214,
217, 218, 219
representation, 31–2, 36–7, 43n, 106, 124,
127, 130, 133, 135, 206–7, 215–16, see
also‘the image’
focus in media studies, ix, 4–5
and identity, 142
Rheingold, Howard, 7, 9, 10, 81n, 84, 97,
132, 188, 195, 224n, 225n
as a nostalgic communitarian, 16
ritual, xii, 14–15, 17, 20, 55, 60, 87, 111, 118,
131–5, 152–3, 165n, 166n, 177, 183, 188,
207–10, 212, 225n
audience communities, 214–15, 217,
221–2, 225n
broadcast communities, 207–10
versus transmission view, 6, 20,
119, 122–35
view of communication, x, 6, 17, 119,
140, 147, 177, 222
Rose, Nikolas, 171–4, 182
Rosen, Ruth, 209
Russell, G., 19n, 63satellite based communications, 2, 13–14,
51, 64, 66, 94
global positioning system (GPS), 2
‘saturation’ thesis, 2, 127
‘saturated self’, 17n, 155
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 5, 124–5, 165n
‘Copernican revolution’ in
humanities, 5
Schultz, Tanjev, 12–13, 85, 100–1, 120n, 206,
209, 223n
Schwoch, James, 1–3, 17n
second media age, ix–xi, 1–17, 20, 39, 43n,
44–5, 50, 54–5, 58, 60, 64–5, 67, 69, 72,
77, 80, 83–91, 97, 101, 102, 137, 140,
145–6, 195–6, 201, 220, 222
as agent of return of flânerie, 199–201
and first media age, ix, 4, 7–11, 12, 17,
43n, 44, 50, 52, 67, 69, 71, 82n, 83–91,
97, 110, 114, 140, 194, 204
historicism,see historicism
Internet as emancipation from broadcast
media, seeInternet, emancipation
as orthodoxy, ix, xi, 8, 19n, 20, 50, 65
‘re-tribalization’, 69, 72
thesis, ix, xi, 4, 8, 12, 20, 50–4, 55, 64, 70,
82n, 84, 87, 101, 102, 148, 185, 187,
201, 222second media age, cont.
utopianism, 7, 18–19n, 52, 57, 74–5, 83,
98, 115, 120n, 128, 157, 179, 189,
191–2, 194–5, 202, 224n
Selfe, C.L., 74–75, 82n
semiotics, ix, 5, 11, 23, 51, 82n, 101, 127,
207, 210
analysis of media, x, xi, 82n, 119
Shannon, C., 55–56, 82n, 119
Sharp, Geoff, 3, 94, 99, 120n, 151, 154,
158–9, 166n, 192
Shields, R., 198
Shils, Edward, 22–3, 207
silicon century, 2
Silverstone, Roger, 3, 18–19n, 180, 207,
223n, 224n
Simmel, G., 121n, 201
Situational/Interactionist perspective, 154–5
Skog, B., 187
Slater, P., 156
Slevin, James, 154, 162–4, 166n
Slouka, Mark, 189, 204
Smith, Marc, 61–2, 64, 82n, 200, 202
SMS, 84, 97, 187, 188
soap opera, 16, 86–7, 111, 119, 148, 209
social architectures, seearchitectures, social
sociality, 152, 172
‘drive for sociality’, 195
with mediums, 177–80
with objects, 119, 177, 180–3
sociological approach, ix–x, 4, 18n, 22, 25,
42n, 59, 78, 86, 96, 108, 122, 152, 154,
164, 194
Sohn-Rethel, Alfred, 154, 158
Sony Ericsson, 82n
Walkman, 45
spam, 77, 97, 166n
Spears, R., 82n, 166n
spectacle, xii, 6, 12, 24, 27, 31–6, 38, 43n, 55,
89–90, 110–13, 118–19, 120n, 200,
207–8, 210, 218, 219, 224n
spectatorship, 32, 144, 207–8, 212, 220
speech, 5, 10, 11, 23, 39–40, 43n, 47, 49, 56,
58, 60, 65, 69–72, 74, 95, 105, 108–9,
110, 121n, 126, 129, 135, 152, 181, 192,
196, 205, 209–10
Stenger, Nicole, 191–2
‘stimulus’ and ‘response’, 21
Stoll, C., 204, 224n
Stone, A.R., 195–6
Stratton, Jon, 46
subcultures, 8, 43n, 80, 169, 187
subject, 5, 6, 11, 14, 26, 29–30, 33, 34, 42n,
53, 89, 113, 124, 141–3, 170, 174, 178,
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