Understanding Media Chapters 24, 25, 26

as the audience participation increases

are counter-irritants or ways of adjusting to the stress of the specialized

no existence or meaning except as extensions of our immediate inner lives

not of our private but of our social selves

that outering or extension of his central nervous system...

an extension of consciousness with satellite broadcasting

also characteristic of our nervous system, ...

present and accessible to every other person in the world

is a fact of passive, rather than active, experience