Mass media now define the ordinary sense of being alive.
Evidence
Today the mass media are inescapable and people feel slightly less alive when unhooked from long lines of news and entertainment. James Leo Herlihy describes the protagonist of Midnight Cowboy, Joe Buck, as never being far from a television set and of not being sure that life was continuing when the flickering image was not present. There is necessary license here, but the insight is sound: modern communications have drastically altered the ordinary terms of experience and consciousness, the ordinary structures of interest and feeling, the normal sense of being alive, of having a social relation. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 115
Categorization
- FICTION: The Midnight Cowboy detail is a vivid literary rendering of media-saturated consciousness.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 115
- XREF: connects to: Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 19; Mass media consumption can harm mental states and distort perceptions of reality — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 663; Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
Related
- Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. (similarity 0.80)
- Mass media consumption can harm mental states and distort perceptions of reality (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it.
#expands(0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 19 - Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam.
#exemplifies(0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497 - Mass media consumption can harm mental states and distort perceptions of reality
#complicates(0.50) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 663