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37 Gillis (1994), pp. 7.
38 Foote (1997), p. 267.
39 Foote (1997), p. 267 n.10.
40 Linenthal (2001), p. 234–5.
41 Linenthal (2001), p. 111.
42 Haas (1998), pp. 95–6.
43 Richardson (2001), p. 266.
44 Linenthal (2001), p. 74.
45 Gillis (1994), p. 14.
46 Gergen (1996), p. 166.
47 Dayan and Katz (1992), p. 7.
48 Linenthal (2001), pp. 94–5.
49 See, with regard to the Columbine site specifically, Pike (2001).
50 There also seems to be a growing and developing public practice of memorial-
ization at sites of highway fatalities, requiring state highway departments to
institute new rules regulating them. Linenthal and Foote note that, while there
has been a longer-standing Catholic practice underlying this, it appears to be
spreading more broadly in the culture.
51 Thompson (1995), p. 230.
52 Keeler (2001).
53 The Wilcox family was interviewed by Christof Demont-Heinrich
54 The Vowski family was interviewed by Curtis Coats.
55 Katz and Dayan (1992), p. 7.
56 Smith (2001).
57 The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, 12 November 2001.
58 See, for example, Hoover, Clark, and Rainie (2004). A significant percentage of
religiously oriented Internet use was devoted to finding out about “other reli-
gions.”
59 For a helpful discussion, see Ginsburg et al. (2002), “Introduction.”
60 Schorr (2004).
61 Kristof (2003).
62 Loconte (2004).
63 Loconte (2004).
64 Olsen (2005).
65 Olsen (2005).
66 Doreen Richards was interviewed by Monica Emerich.

10 Conclusion
1 One informant, it will be recalled, identified the “Amish” as an example of
such separation. However, there are families who do separate themselves in less
radical ways, but do, nonetheless, separate themselves from media. See Hoover
et al. (2004), Chapter 6, for the example of Corrine Payton.
2 This is, of course, a term from Silverstone (1981).
3 Cf. Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi (1990).
4 Horace Newcomb’s (1987) proposal that we think of television as a “cultural
forum” is very much related to what we’ve seen here.
5 For younger interviewees, it seems that the Internet and Web may be gradually
taking television’s place in this regard.
6 There is an extensive literature focused on this issue, most of it rooted in
Bourdieu’s (1984) ideas about taste as a currency of cultural exchange. See also
Thompson (1995), p. 16.