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Title: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz ISBN: 0-19-504231-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes sense of 20th century chaos
Comment: This is a book that will make you say, "That's why that is," over and over. It takes many of the rapid changes and social movements of the last half century and shows how they are all in fact related to the development of tv and other media. It reads like a novel, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: A solid framework in which to negotiate a mediated culture
Comment: Revisiting and moving beyond his predecessors, Meyrowitz's book provides a wonderful framework that allows the reader of any level to appreciate the role of mediated communication in shaping social spheres and orders...both historically and today.
Written in a style that avoids the high-semantics of academia and avoids the vague poetics of McLuhan, Meyrowitz's book is perhaps most fascinating because of the fact that it was written fifteen years ago: before the internet boom, before the merger-mania of media conglomeritization, etc. In my opinion, Meyrowitz's ideas are still very relevant and are a true signifier of the brilliance of this text.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bloated prose, uninformed opinion
Comment: Does the author really believe that TV offers us an intimate look at the life and soul of the personalities it portrays? Obviously, political figures have devised means to manipulate the media via their own machinations and through their own media consultants. I would argue that so called "parasocial" communication (an example of academic newspeak the author employs) in fact results in a false sense of security regarding our knowledge of politicians. ... To say that a glimpse at a politician or other public personality via television offers us an intimate look at his or her behavior is like saying that watching Mel Gibson play Hamlet tells us about Gibson's personal life. Has this author ever heard of the concept of "acting?" As P. T. Barnum stated, "There's a sucker born every minute.... Just as Plato warned about art as being an artifice of an artifice (that is the replication of the "real" which is already removed from true essence) this book is a fantasy of a fantasy; unfortunately it doesn't seem the author can tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
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Title: Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin ISBN: 0805072837 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman ISBN: 0140094385 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Communication in History (3rd Edition) by D. J. Crowley, Paul Heyer, David Crowley ISBN: 0801331331 Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $76.00 |
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Title: The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman ISBN: 0679751661 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham ISBN: 0262631598 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 20 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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