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COMMUNICATIONTHEORY
MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
DAVID HOLMES
Communication Theory
Sections
« prev | next »- INTRODUCTION – A SECOND MEDIA AGE?
- Communication in cybercultures
- The overstatement of linguistic perspectives on media
- The first and second media age – the historical distinction
- Interaction versus integration
- THEORIES OF BROADCAST MEDIA
- The media as an apparatus of ideology
- Ideology as a structure of broadcast – Althusser
- The society of the spectacle – Debord, Boorstin and Foucault
- The medium is the message – McLuhan, Innis and Meyrowitz
- THEORIES OF CYBERSOCIETY
- Cyberspace
- Theories
- Social implications
- The first and second media age as mutually constitutive
- Table 4.1The broadcast event
- Audiences without texts
- The return of medium theory
- Recasting broadcast in terms of medium theory
- INTERACTION VERSUS INTEGRATION
- Transmission versus ritual views of communication
- Types of interaction
- Table 5.1Transmission and ritual perspectives compared
- Table 5.2John B. Thompson’s instrumental/mediation paradigm
- The problem with ‘mediation’
- Medium theory and individuality
- Reciprocity without interaction – broadcast
- Interaction without reciprocity – the Internet
- The levels of integration argument
- TELECOMMUNITY
- Rethinking community
- Classical theories of community
- The ‘end of the social’ and the new discourse of community
- Globalization and social context
- The rise of global communities of practice
- Sociality with mediums/sociality with objects
- Post-social society and the generational divide
- Network communities
- Broadcast communities
- Telecommunity
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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