The Reality of the Mass Media
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...Gerhards and Neidhardt (1990), as well as Luhmann (2000), for example, have a concept of the public sphere that ignores original exemplars....
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...When it comes to decision-making and behavior, mass media play a highly influential role (Luhmann and Cross, 2000)....
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...…societies, and although many people have access to interpersonal networks or alternative information systems to seek and exchange information, mass media remain a critical element in people's acquisition of knowledge, specifically beyond an individual's direct experience (Luhmann and Cross, 2000)....
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...For Luhmann, the function of games (if they can be assumed to operate, as leisure pursuits, under a binary value code of entertainment/non-entertainment within the mass media system), lies simply in destroying superfluous time [17]—perhaps not the most promising position for presenting a critique of society....
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...This second reality creates an observer position for “real” life [17]....
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...The basic categories with which media studies elsewhere conjure are some derivations of the following: information, education and entertainment (Briggs & Burke 2005; Luhman 2000)....
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