No Sense of Place: The Impact of the Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Josh

Description: No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz This book is intended for Prizes won etc. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media have created new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is"with" us.While other media experts have limited the debate to message content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which changes in media rearrange "who knows what about whom" and "whoknows what compared to whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. No Sense of Place explains how the electronic landscape has encouraged the development of: -More adultlike children and more childlike adults; -More career-oriented women and more family-oriented men; and -Leaders who try to act more like the "person next door" and real neighbors who want to have a greater say inlocal, national, and international affairs. The dramatic changes fostered by electronic media, notes Meyrowitz, are neither entirely good nor entirely bad. In some ways, we are returning toolder, pre-literate forms of social behavior, becoming "hunters and gatherers of an information age." In other ways, we are rushing forward into a new social world. New media have helped to liberate many people from restrictive, place-defined roles, but the resulting heightened expectations have also led to new social tensions and frustrations. Once taken-for-granted behaviors are now subject to constant debate and negotiation. The book richly explicates the quadruple punin its title: Changes in media transform how we sense information and how we make sense of our physical and social places in the world. Author Biography Joshua Meyrowitz is Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire, where he has won numerous honors, including the Lindberg Award for Outstanding Scholar-Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts. He is the author of scores of articles on media and society that have appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in general-interest magazines and newspapers. Table of Contents Introduction: Behavior in Its PlacePart I--Media as Change MechanismsMedia and Behavior: A Missing LinkMedia, Situations, and BehaviorWhy Roles Change When Media ChangePart II--From Print Situations to Electronic SituationsThe Merging of Public SpheresThe Blurring of Public and Private BehaviorsThe Separation of Social Place from Physical PlacePart III--The New Social LandscapeNew Group IdentitiesNew Ways of BecomingQuestioning AuthorityEffect LoopsPart IV--Three Dimensions of Social ChangeThe Merging of Masculinity and FemininityThe Blurring of Childhood and AdulthoodLowering the Political Hero to Our LevelPart V--ConclusionWhere Have We Been, Where Are We Going?Appendix: Discussion of TermsNotesBibliographyIndex 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.... Hes 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 poets sensitivity and a scientists 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"No Sense of Place is brilliant; it lays out the challenges of people navigating multiple audiences as a result of changes in media and serves as one of the foundational texts for understanding the internet and social media." -danah boyd, Microsoft Research"A very impressive work that provides new insights into the bearing of the structure of information access in society on a surprising variety of social phenomena. The book is exceptionally well written and well reasoned. It is a display of the sociological imagination in the very best sense of that phrase." -Contemporary Sociology"Deserves our undivided attention.... An outstanding contribution." -Communication Quarterly"One of the seminal works in communication of the last fifty years. It has had a major impact within communication, and within many other disciplines in the Humanities as well as the Social Sciences.... Developments in digital communication...have only reinforced Meyrowitzs original analyses and arguments.... an enduring and prescient work.... an essential text." - Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia"Extraordinary book... its central thesis is even more true of the world of the new electronic media." -Jeffrey Goldfarb, Gellert Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research"A stunningly original contribution to...how our everyday lives are influenced by the omnipresence of electronic media.... describes the changes in our social and communal relations lucidly and forcefully." -Susan J . White, Lunger Professor of Spiritual Resources & Disciplines, Brite Divinity School"No Sense of Place is a genuine sociological classic for the 21st century and the information age.... continues to deserve our careful attention and appreciation." -David Allen, Sociology, Temple University Promotional Richly explicates the quadruple pun in its title: Changes in media transform how we sense information and how we make sense of our physical and social places in the world Prizes Winner of Winner of the 1986 "Best Book on Electronic Media" Award of the National Association of Broadcasters and the Broadcast Education Association Winner of the 2014 International Communication Associations Fellows Book Award. Long Description How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media have created new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is"with" us.While other media experts have limited the debate to message content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which changes in media rearrange "who knows what about whom" and "whoknows what compared to whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. No Sense of Place explains how the electronic landscape has encouraged the development of: -More adultlike children and more childlike adults; -More career-oriented women and more family-oriented men; and -Leaders who try to act more like the "person next door" and real neighbors who want to have a greater say inlocal, national, and international affairs. The dramatic changes fostered by electronic media, notes Meyrowitz, are neither entirely good nor entirely bad. In some ways, we are returning toolder, pre-literate forms of social behavior, becoming "hunters and gatherers of an information age." In other ways, we are rushing forward into a new social world. New media have helped to liberate many people from restrictive, place-defined roles, but the resulting heightened expectations have also led to new social tensions and frustrations. Once taken-for-granted behaviors are now subject to constant debate and negotiation. The book richly explicates the quadruple punin its title: Changes in media transform how we sense information and how we make sense of our physical and social places in the world. Review Text "... 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.... Hes 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 poets sensitivity and a scientists 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"No Sense of Place is brilliant; it lays out the challenges of people navigating multiple audiences as a result of changes in media and serves as one of the foundational texts for understanding the internet and social media." -danah boyd, Microsoft Research"A very impressive work that provides new insights into the bearing of the structure of information access in society on a surprising variety of social phenomena. The book is exceptionally well written and well reasoned. It is a display of the sociological imagination in the very best sense of that phrase." -Contemporary Sociology"Deserves our undivided attention.... An outstanding contribution." -Communication Quarterly"One of the seminal works in communication of the last fifty years. It has had a major impact within communication, and within many other disciplines in the Humanities as well as the Social Sciences.... Developments in digital communication...have only reinforced Meyrowitzs original analyses and arguments.... an enduring and prescient work.... an essential text." - Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia"Extraordinary book... its central thesis is even more true of the world of the new electronic media." -Jeffrey Goldfarb, Gellert Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research"A stunningly original contribution to...how our everyday lives are influenced by the omnipresence of electronic media.... describes the changes in our social and communal relations lucidly and forcefully." -Susan J . White, Lunger Professor of Spiritual Resources & Disciplines, Brite Divinity School"No Sense of Place is a genuine sociological classic for the 21st century and the information age.... continues to deserve our careful attention and appreciation." -David Allen, Sociology, Temple University Review Quote Winner of the 2014 International Communication Associations Fellows Book Award "... 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 "To date, this is one of the finest presentations on this subject. It is critical that educators, parents, and those involved in our laws and decision-making read this carefully in order to address the negative impact of the electronic media on social behavior and enhance the positive uses of this media." --Anne Taybin, SUNY Stony Brook "Its rare that such a complex subject is dealt with in such a readable style. Sociologists rarely deal with the medias role in reality construction, resource mobilization, etc., in as concrete a way as Meyrowitz does." --Denis M. Hurley, Pace University, College of White Plains "A striking analysis of televisions impact on our culture." --Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist "A luminous contribution to the social psychology of our time." --Stanley Milgram, author of Obedience to Authority "Among the most important books on media yet written; a masterful piece of scholarship." --Channels "Brilliant...a theoretical tour de force."--Journal of Communication "A very impressive work that provides new insights into the bearing of the structure of information access in society on a surprising variety of social phenomena. The book is exceptionally well written and well reasoned. It is a display of the sociological imagination in the very best sense of that phrase." --Contemporary Sociology "Deserves our undivided attention....An outstanding contribution." --Communication Quarterly "The most evocative and perceptive theory of mass media effects published in the last twenty years." --Joseph Dominick, University of Georgia "A stimulating, thoughtful analysis. Should be read by all persons interested in the medias impact on social behavior." --Joseph P. McKerns, Southern Illinois University "Fascinating...Meyrowitz is a clear writer, most important, he is a clear, original thinker." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch Promotional "Headline" Introduction: Behavior in Its Place Part I--Media as Change Mechanisms Media and Behavior: A Missing Link Media, Situations, and Behavior Why Roles Change When Media Change Part II--From Print Situations to Electronic Situations The Merging of Public Spheres The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors The Separation of Social Place from Physical Place Part III--The New Social Landscape New Group Identities New Ways of Becoming Questioning Authority Effect Loops Part IV--Three Dimensions of Social Change The Merging of Masculinity and Femininity The Blurring of Childhood and Adulthood Lowering the Political Hero to Our Level Part V--Conclusion Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? Appendix: Discussion of Terms Notes Bibliography Index Feature Selling point: An award-winning seminal book that develops a groundbreaking theory on how changes in media influence everyday social behavior and identity.Selling point: Rather than focusing on media messages, Meyrowitz analyzes how new media transform the "situational geography" of everyday life.Selling point: Develops an innovative theoretical fusion of Marshall McLuhans perspective on media with sociologist Erving Goffmans analyses of face-to-face interaction.Selling point: Drawing on clear, everyday examples, the book shows how social situations and social roles can be thought of as types of "information-systems" and are therefore susceptible to change in predictable ways when media change.Selling point: Details how electronic media break the age-old link between location and social interaction, thereby undermining the connection between physical place and social "place."Selling point: Documents how electronic media have lifted many of the veils of secrecy between children and adults, men and women, and politicians and average citizens, resulting in a series of revolutionary changes, including the blurring of age, gender, and authority distinctions.Selling point: Written in a lively, down-to-earth style that is accessible to general readers while presenting sophisticated theory for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. New Feature Introduction: Behavior in Its Place Part I--Media as Change Mechanisms Media and Behavior: A Missing Link Media, Situations, and Behavior Why Roles Change When Media Change Part II--From Print Situations to Electronic Situations The Merging of Public Spheres The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors The Separation of Social Place from Physical Place Part III--The New Social Landscape New Group Identities New Ways of Becoming Questioning Authority Effect Loops Part IV--Three Dimensions of Social Change The Merging of Masculinity and Femininity The Blurring of Childhood and Adulthood Lowering the Political Hero to Our Level Part V--Conclusion Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? Appendix: Discussion of Terms Notes Bibliography Index Details ISBN019504231X Author Joshua Meyrowitz Pages 432 Language English ISBN-10 019504231X ISBN-13 9780195042313 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 302.234 Subtitle The Impact of the Electronic Media on Social Behavior Short Title NO SENSE OF PLACE REV/E Edition Description Revised Position Professor Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Professor, University of New Hampshire DOI 10.1604/9780195042313 UK Release Date 1987-03-19 Year 1987 Publication Date 1987-03-19 AU Release Date 1987-03-19 NZ Release Date 1987-03-19 US Release Date 1987-03-19 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127175210;

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