Durham’s Mill Road Plaza: 1967 to 2018

Controversy surrounding plans to redevelop Durham’s Mill Plaza is best understood in historical context. The majority of this account of the Mill Plaza entails direct quotations from documents (Town studies, surveys, and Master Plans; Town Meeting minutes; transcripts of officials’ remarks at meetings; residents’ letters and comments for Public Hearings; newspaper reports, etc.). Thousands of pages of Town documents from the 1960s to the present and scores of hours of recent meeting recordings were reviewed for Plaza-related material. Ellipses points (…) indicate gaps in quotations. Online links to the full documents are provided when available. Emphases are original, unless noted as “added.” For Plaza redevelopment proposals from 2014 to the present, “all sides” (developer, residents, Town Board members) are given full and equal voice. A few pages near the end attempt to convey the general consensus of Town residents on the redevelopment process, followed by a four-page outline of Plaza “history highlights” from the 1960s to the present

TV Politics: Seeing More than We Want, Knowing Less than We Need

Joshua Meyrowitz is Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. This essay is adapted from a Keynote Address given at the Third Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on November 3, 1996. A more detailed version of the Agran campaign case study appears in the author\u27s article, ``Visible and Invisible Candidates: A Case Study in `Competing Logics\u27 of Campaign Coverage,\u27\u27 Political Communication, 11, No. 2 (1994), pp. 145-64

Tre paradigmer i medieforskningen

I en tid med stadig flere typer medier og hvor medieforskning dækker snart sagt alle mulige forskningsområder, giver Joshua Meyrowitz´ artikel et aktuelt bud på tre overordnede paradigmer for forståelsen af medierne. Hvad er folks - særligt medieforskernes - opfattelse af medi- erne? Forfatteren opererer analytisk med tre mediemetaforer: Medierne som kanaler, som sprog og som miljøer. Det er konkurrende opfattelser af medier, som forskerne ofte ikke formulerer eller erkender eksplicit. Den manglende klarhed omkring ens mediemetaforiske grundlag fører til uoverensstemmelser og misforståelser. Når grænserne for hver opfat- telse derimod trækkes op, påpeger Meyrowitz, skabes samtidig ønskerne for at forstå og bruge andre opfattelser. Den nødvendige mediemetafo- riske brobygning for forståelse af vor tid, kan først da opstå. Artiklen er oversat af Gunhild Wernblad

The majority cult: love and grief for media friends

“John Lennon Killed by Stranger” screamed the headlines in December 1980. But for assassin Mark David Chapman, John Lennon was no stranger. Although Chapman had never come within a hundred miles of the former Beatle until that winter, he knew him very well, so well that he often seemed to believe that he was John Lennon. As a teenager, Chapman wore his hair like Lennon’s, learned to play the guitar, and joined a rock group. He played and sang Lennon’s songs over and over again. Chapman, like ..