Joshua Meyrowitz quotes
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“Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.”
-- Joshua MeyrowitzSource : Joshua Meyrowitz (1986). “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior”, p.40, Oxford University Press
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“There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.”
-- Joshua MeyrowitzSource : Joshua Meyrowitz (1986). “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior”, p.75, Oxford University Press
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“People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.”
-- Joshua Meyrowitz
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“Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.”
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“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”
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Source : Stanford University interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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“Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.”
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“I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.”
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“Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.”
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