Ruiying Lian’s Reviews > No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior > Status Update

While I was reading this book, I retell the author's theory about why the millennials started to call their parents by name, and my mom's reactions was:'' hum?mmmm.''

The previous researches on media mostly focus on the content delivered by media, i.e. how different media was used as a political, economic end, but largely ignore the one important possibility about how media changed people's lives -- electronic media created ''new social environments with new patterns of social action, feeling, and belief.''