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subject, cont. Thompson, John B., cont.
as a fiction, 16 ‘mediated publicness’, 34, 76, 223n
‘subject position’, 30, 143, 170 time-space, 163–164
suburbanization, 68, 88, 92, 99, 195 compression, 117
see also city, urbanization, freeway, malls distanciation, 162–3
Sudweeks, F., 194, 205, 206 relations, 162–3
surveillance, 11, 33, 156, 163, 219–20, 223n Toffler, Alvin, 221–2
Tofts, Darren, 192–3, 223n
talk show, 24, 165n, 208, 211, 212, cspace, 192–3
224n, 225n Tönnies, Ferdinand, 167–170
as ritual, 225n Gemeinschaft, 168–9, 175, 197, 202, 210
and audience community, 217–19 Gesellschaft, 168–9, 172, 197
host as intermediary, 217 totalization, 127–8
and metonymous identification, 217–19 Touraine, Alain, 171–4, 182, 194
and the ‘really real’, 218, 222–3n ‘end of Homo Sociologicus’, 171
Taylor, T., 205–206 decomposition of social norms, 173–4
technological determinism, 12, 17n, 81, 85, ‘programmed society’, 171–2
178–9, 186 society as a technology of managing
‘techno-social’ relations, xi, xiii, 12, 60, 84, populations, 171
155, 156, 162, 179–80, 207 tourism, 24, 170, 207, 224n
‘technostructure’, 115, 117 transmission view, 6, 42n, 53, 58, 118,
telecommunications, 2, 13, 14, 52, 56, 65, 130–4, 138, 140
69, 128–9, 135, 161, 167 and interaction, xii, 15, 119, 164, 177
and cyberspace, 46 and ‘process schools’, 57
convergence, xi, 64 versus ritual view, 6, 20, 119, 122–35
telecommunity, xii, 17n, 111, 122, 167–222 ‘transport’ model of communication, see
telegraph, 13, 39, 40, 46, 56, 120n, 134 transmission view
telephone, 1, 2, 12–13, 16–17, 46–7, 48, 51, Turkle, Sherry, 2, 7, 49, 52, 54, 80, 141–142,
56, 61, 65, 68, 70–2, 79, 85–7, 89, 92, 144, 183–4
97–9, 114–15, 136, 143–4, 165n, 193 ‘age of the Internet’, 10, 49, 54, 80
television, 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11–15, 17, 18n, 19n, computer screen as ‘second self’,
22, 24, 32–3, 34, 37, 40, 45, 49–52, 58, 2, 54, 184
64–8, 70–4, 79, 81n, 82n, 84–7, 89, 92–8, digital intimacy, 183–4
100–3, 105–8, 110–12, 114–17, 120n,
121n, 123, 130, 132, 136–8, 141, 143–8, United Nations (UN), 44, 67, 222n
153–5, 159, 165n, 166n, 169, 174, 177, urbanization, xi, 12, 21, 32, 67–69, 88, 90,
180, 185, 188, 196, 200–1, 206, 208–22, 92, 197
223n, 224n, 225n micro-urbanization, 68
‘TV age’, 71, 92, 93 urban life, x, 3, 53, 54, 67, 68–9, 78, 83,
television studios, 211, 214–15, 91, 120n, 149, 156, 167, 182, 196,
217–18, 225n 199, 201, 222
telnet, 79 see also city, freeway, suburbanization,
Telstra, 97 malls
Terranova, T., 98 Urry, John, 179
terrorism, 43n Usenet, 47, 57, 79, 87
see also cyber-terrorism user perspective, 18n, 59, 143, 180, 223n
Tester, Keith, 197 ‘uses and gratification’ model, 112, 134
the flâneur, 198, 224n
The Ed Sullivan Show, 109 van Dijk, J., 64, 65, 82n
‘the image’, 5, 15, 31–5, 36–8, 52, 64, 68, 89, Vaudeville, 119n
94–5, 105, 117, 214, 221 video, 49, 50, 66, 78, 100, 103, 115, 200
Thompson, John B., xii, 21, 33, 85, 136–9, games, 74
141, 144–8, 151–2, 154, 155, 158, 160, video age, 80
162, 163–4, 165n, 166n, 208–9, 218 video-cafés, 78
instrumental/mediation paradigm, 137 video-on-demand, 8, 103–4, 108