No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior: The Electronic Media on Social Behavior - Softcover

Meyrowitz, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019504231X ISBN 13: 9780195042313

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 1985

Synopsis

How has television affected our everyday experience? This question has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in ^INo Sense of Place.^R Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media create new social situations that are no longer shaped by ^I where^R we are or who is "with" us.^L While other media experts have limited the debate to program content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which television has rearranged "who knows what about whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. He shows how television has lifted many of the veils of secrecy between children and adults, men and women, and politicians and average citizens. The result is a series of revolutionary changes, including the blurring of age, gender, and authority distinctions.

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Review:

... a classic book, richly deserving of the ICA 2014 Fellows Book Award, for its own merit and for the impact on the scholarship of others. No Sense of Place is a landmark in theorizing about media. (Dafna Lemish, International Communication Association)

One of the most ambitious, refreshing, and provocative attempts to expand our understanding of communications technologies. (Technology Review)

Provocative.... Compelling.... An original and eclectic theory for studying the impact of any medium at any place and in any time. (Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media)

Meyrowitz takes a panoramic view of American culture - its politics, its gender relations, its educational standards, its attitudes toward history and literacy, and much more.... He's a fine example of an interdisciplinary risk-taker. (Christian Science Monitor)

Among the most important books on media yet written; a masterful piece of scholarship. (Channels)

No Sense of Place is an original and deeply perceptive analysis of how the media have come to alter the texture of everyday experience. It is a stimulating work, with insights springing up on every page like wildflowers on a mountain. Written with a poet's sensitivity and a scientist's analytic precision, the book is a luminous contribution to the social psychology of our time (Stanley Milgram, author of Obedience to Authority)

Brilliant.... a theoretical tour de force. (Journal of Communication)

No Sense of Place is a cornucopia in the grand style: a breathtaking flurry of crisp insights, homey illustrations, ingenious tropes.... gives the reader full value in erudition and liveliness. (Quarterly Journal of Speech)

From the Back Cover:

The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior.Meyrowitz shows how, with electronic media, our experiences and behaviors are no longer shaped by where we are or who is 'with' us. Television, he claims, has altered the balance between public and private spaces and lifted many of the old veils of secrecy between children and adults, men and women, and politicians and average citizens.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 019504231X
• ISBN 13: 9780195042313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432