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No sense of place: the impact of electronic media on social behavior
Joshua Meyrowitz-
Frontmatter
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1 Introduction: Behavior in Its Place (page 1)
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Part 1 Media as Change Mechanisms
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2 Media and Behavior: A Missing Link (page 13)
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Media as Cultural Environments (page 16)
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Situations and Behavior (page 23)
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The Theoretical Gap: Media and Situations (page 33)
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3 Media, Situations, and Behavior (page 35)
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Beyond Place: Situations as Information-Systems (page 35)
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New Media, New Situations (page 38)
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New Situations, New Behavior (page 40)
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4 Why Roles Change When Media Change (page 52)
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Group Identity: Shared but Secret Information (page 53)
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Role Transitions: Controlled Access to Group Information (page 57)
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Authority: Mystery and Mystification (page 62)
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Part II From Print Situations to Electronic Situations
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Introduction to Part II (page 69)
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5 The Merging of Public Spheres (page 73)
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Media "Access Codes" (page 74)
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Getting the Message (page 81)
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Implicit vs. Explicit Access (page 91)
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6 The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors (page 93)
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Information Forms (page 93)
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Personal vs. Impersonal Response (page 97)
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"Imprint of" vs. "Report on" (page 109)
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7 The Separation of Social Place from Physical Place (page 115)
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Physical Passage and Social Passage (page 116)
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Media "Friends" (page 118)
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The Binding of Message to Context (page 122)
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Time and Space "Saturation" (page 124)
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Part III The New Social Landscape
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Introduction to Part III (page 127)
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8 New Group Identities (page 131)
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The Merging of Group Experiences (page 131)
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The Exposure of Backstage Group Behavior (page 135)
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The Undermining of Group Locations (page 143)
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9 New Ways of Becoming (page 150)
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The Overlapping of Socialization Spheres (page 150)
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Backstage Access and Blurring Role Transitions (page 153)
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The Weakening of Socialization Places (page 157)
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10 Questioning Authority (page 160)
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The Blurring of High and Low Status Situations (page 160)
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Backstage Visibility and the Decline of Authority (page 167)
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The Severing of the Territory/Status Link (page 169)
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11 Effect Loop (page 173)
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The Etiquette Loop (page 173)
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The Media Content Loop (page 175)
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The Territorial Access Loop (page 180)
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Part IV Three Dimensions of Social Change
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Introduction to Part IV (page 185)
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12 The Merging of Masculinity and Femininity A Case Study in Changing Group Identities (page 187)
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Gender Liberation (page 188)
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Feminist Continuities and Discontinuities (page 196)
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Femininity and the Doctrine of Separate Spheres (page 201)
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Television and the Raising of Feminist Consciousness (page 209)
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Sexist Content/Liberating Structure (page 212)
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Literacy and the Enhancement of Patriarchy (page 217)
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When a House is Not a Home (and Not a Business) (page 222)
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13 The Blurring of Childhood and Adulthood A Case Study in Changing Role Transitions (page 226)
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The Adultlike Child and the Childlike Adult (page 227)
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The Myth of Age-Determinism (page 231)
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Television and Child Integration (page 235)
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Mixed Grades for the School (page 253)
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Literacy and the "Invention" of Childhood and Adulthood (page 258)
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Reflections in Black on White (page 265)
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14 Lowering the Political Hero to Our Level A Case Study in Changing Authority (page 268)
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The Merging of Political Arenas and Styles (page 269)
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Political Ritual as Political Reality (page 276)
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Great Performances Require the Perfect Stage (page 279)
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Media and Presidential Mortality (page 283)
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From "Private-Public" to "Public-Public" (page 287)
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Watergate and "Cartergate" (page 292)
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The Presidency in the Eye of Television: Reagan and Beyond (page 301)
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Part V Conclusion
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15 Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? (page 307)
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No Sense of Place (page 307)
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Order, Not Chaos (page 313)
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Hunters and Gatherers in an Information Age (page 315)
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Good or Bad? / Real or False? (page 317)
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Whither "1984"? (page 321)
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New Generations of Electronic Media (page 324)
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Controlling or Controlled (page 328)
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Appendix: Discussion of Terms (page 331)
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Notes (page 341)
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Bibliography (page 374)
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Index (page 391)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AmS | 27.2 (Fall. 1986): 74-75 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40642071 |
WQ | 9.3 (Summer. 1985): 131-132 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40256902 |
SSQ | 67.1 (Mar. 1986): 222-223 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/42862048 |
ETC | 43.4 (Winter. 1986): 423-426 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/42579301 |
LQICP | 56.1 (Jan. 1986): 65-66 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4307934 |
CS | 17.6 (Nov. 1988): 820-821 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2073623 |
AJS | 92.1 (Jul. 1986): 229-230 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2779743 |
PDK | 68.4 (Dec. 1986): 335 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20403351 |
WPQ | 42.1 (Mar. 1989): 173-186 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/448663 |
TS | 16.4 (Jul. 1987): 621-628 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/657596 |
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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