No sense of place : the impact of electronic media on social behavior

摘要: How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions generated endless arguments speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force originality as Joshua Meyrowitz No Sense Place. Advancing a daring sophisticated theory, shows how television other electronic created new social situations that are longer shaped by where we or who is "with" us. While experts limited debate to message content, focuses on ways which rearrange "who knows what about whom" compared whom," making it impossible for us behave each traditional ways. Place explains landscape encouraged development of: -More adultlike children more childlike adults; career-oriented women family-oriented men; -Leaders try act like "person next door" real neighbors want greater say local, national, international affairs. The dramatic fostered media, notes Meyrowitz, neither entirely good nor bad. In some ways, returning older, pre-literate forms becoming "hunters gatherers an information age." rushing forward into world. New helped liberate many people from restrictive, place-defined roles, resulting heightened expectations also led tensions frustrations. Once taken-for-granted behaviors now subject constant negotiation. book richly explicates quadruple pun its title: Changes transform make physical places