Joshua Meyrowitz

Joshua Meyrowitz (* 1949) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Meyrowitz earned his bachelor's degree in social sciences in 1972 at Queens College of the City University of New York, 1974 ibid. his master. In 1978 he received his doctorate from New York University. He is one of the most important media theorist of the 20th century, refers to Marshall McLuhan and how this is one of the advocates of a media theory that does not change the contents of the medium, the society, but the medium as such.

The thesis of his major work, No Sense of Place is that mass media lead to a change in the local sense. With place he says it also provides access to information worlds. You had to be the first in a special place to learn, for example, how the audit of a university looks like, it is enough now to see a corresponding program. Or men have access to the formerly closed right information network of women by certain programs. Through media so that access to information is changing worlds. This does the following:

  • Public areas mingle
  • Public and private behavior mingle
  • Social and physical location are separated ( the physical location has nothing to do with who we are socially speaking )

The knowledge increases, the distinction between stage and background is canceled. The television is the " Secret Revelations machine".

Works

  • No Sense of Place. The Impact of the Electronic Media on Social Behavior. Oxford University Press 1986
  • The television company. Reality and identity in the media age. Beltz, Weinheim 1987
  • The television company I. Everywhere and nowhere there. Beltz, Weinheim 1990
  • The Television Society II As media change our world. Beltz, Weinheim 1990
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