| Description |
ix, 666 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Interpersonal network structure and media use: focus on radiality and non-mass media use / James A. Danowski -- Mass media consumption as a functional alternative / Karl Erik Rosengren, Sven Windahl -- Mass communication and para-social interaction / Donald Horton, R. Richard Wohl -- Our soap opera friends / Robert Cathcart -- Social relations with media figures / John L. Caughey -- Television and interpersonal behavior / Joshua Meyrowitz -- The grammar of radio / David L. Altheide, Robert P. Snow -- Radio voices / Peter Moss, Christina Higgins -- Sociology of the telephone / Sidney H. Aronson -- Impact of the information age and high technology on interpersonal communication in organizations / Linda Costigan Lederman -- The person-computer interaction / Robert Cathcart, Gary Gumpert -- Ambiguity of perception / Gary Gumpert |
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Mediated interpersonal communication / Robert Cathcart, Gary Gumpert -- On the mass media and mass communication / Lee Thayer -- Mass media and interpersonal channels / Steven H. Chaffee -- The interdependence of the media and other social systems / S.J. Ball-Rokeach, Melvin DeFleur -- Decoding Dallas: notes from a cross-cultural study / Elihu Katz, Tamar Liebes -- Interpersonal bias in television and interactive media / Elizabeth S. White -- Interpersonal and media encounters / Robert K. Avery, Thomas A McCain Mass media exposure and interpersonal communicative competency / Gerald R. Miller -- Intrapersonal, interpersonal and mass communication processes in individual and multi-person systems / Brent D. Ruben |
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The new languages / Edmund Carpenter -- The electric revolution / R. Murray Schafer -- Music videos and the iconic data base / Charles Turner -- The imprisoning of reality / Susan Sontag -- Toward a grammar of motives / David L. Jacobs -- Perception in the cinema / George Lellis -- Media and sense of smell / Lance Strate -- Computer as Rorschach / Sherry Turkle -- The self and postindustrial society / Anthony Smith -- Communication, values, and popular television series / James W. Chesebro -- Women's magazines Gaye Tuchman -- Parents, children and television / Paul Messaris -- How your children make sense of television / Ellen Wartella -- Coming of age in the global village: television and adolescence / Ronald J. Faber, Jane D. Brown, Jack McLeod -- Media uses and functions among the elderly / Nancy Wood Bliese -- Television shapes the soul / Michael Novak -- Ideology, television and interpersonal communications / James Lull -- Mass media and the social order / Sari Thomas -- Knowledge in time / Walter J. Ong |
| Summary |
This updated and revised edition of a popular text focuses on the symbiotic connection between the media and interpersonal relations. Inter/Media brings together over forty essays, many of them commissioned for this volume, aimed at unravelling the intricate entanglements of media, society, and the individual. The broad range of contributors includes Anthony Smith, Sari Thomas, Michael Arlen, Susan Sontag, James Lull, and Gaye Tuchman. Emphasizing education, business, and telecommunications, this edition provides eighteen new essays on timely subjects such as how and what children learn from television, the impact and role of computers on the home, the school, and the workplace, and the meaning and use of the family snapshot. Divided into four topical sections, "The Media and Interpersonal Connection," "Media, Intimacy and Interpersonal Networks," "Mediated Reality," and "Media Values," the book's organization provides a structure for reading and discussion |
| Analysis |
Mass media - Sociological perspectives |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-666) |
| Subject |
Interpersonal communication.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media.
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| Author |
Cathcart, Robert S., editor
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Gumpert, Gary, editor
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| LC no. |
85018811 |
| ISBN |
0195037375 |
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0195039831 |
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9780195037371 |
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9780195039832 |
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