ABSTRACT
In 1985, Joshua Meyrowitz wrote a book on how television and electronic media were changing social and communicative behaviour. One of his main arguments was that media was not only blurring the boundaries between adults and children but also flattening out the differences between domestic and public spaces. If buildings or rooms had been able to confine people ‘not only physically, but emotionally and psychologically as well’, Meyrowitz considered that electronic media such as TV, which allow information to ‘flow through walls and rush across great distances’, altered time and space and made room for more egalitarian and fluid relationships (Meyrowitz 1985: viii).
