No sense of place: the impact of electronic media on social behavior

The question of how television has affected our everyday exprerience has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker had 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 create new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" us. Television, he claims, has lifted 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.