Implications of Shifts in Dominant Mediums on Media-Induced Feelings of Connectedness

s Fellows Book Award and the 1986 National Association of Broadcaster's award for Best Book on Electronic Media.Why, then, might we focus on this particular work as a hidden gem?We selected this work as scholars of positive media psychology who believe that not only was Meyrowitz prophetic in his scholarship, but that he also paves new avenues for thinking about and researching how media function to affect our sense of connectedness with others.In this article, we first provide an overview of Meyrowitz's arguments.We then we apply this literature to two concepts related to connectedness: cognitive empathy and synchrony.