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Lanigan, Richard L. – 1992
The advent of mass media in the twentieth century creates certain "ruptures," as Michel Foucault would say, in the perceptual world of human beings as they go about the everyday business of coping with a technological culture grounded in human perception as the rule for expression. Foucault proposes that people watch two…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects
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Goldzwig, Steve; Dionisopoulos, George N. – Central States Speech Journal, 1986
Relies on grief literature to develop a heuristic model of patterned stages of national mourning. Applies the model to lend insight into print mediated accounts of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. (NKA)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Grief