Joshua Meyrowitz

Joshua Meyrowitz is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, where he has won numerous honors, including the Lindberg Award for Outstanding Scholar-Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Meyrowitz’s teaching and research interests include mass media, media history, corporate vs. non-corporate media, critical analysis of news, war news and war propaganda, medium theory, media production variables, qualitative research methods, and pan-disciplinary communication theory.

He is the author of the award-winning No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (Oxford University Press) and over 100 articles on media and society that have appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in general-interest magazines and newspapers.

On November 12th, 2025, a commemorative presentation marking the 40th anniversary of the first edition of No Sense of Place will take place at The Players Club (Manhattan).

 “Digitally Divided Discourse & Threats to Democracy”
Talk

A witness account about what transpired at UNH on May 1, 2024, when peaceful anti-war activists, fueled by years of non-corporate news and social media postings about the “oozing” decades-long Israeli-Palestinian struggle, encountered violent power structures attuned to mainstream news narratives shaped by official sources and “breaking news.”

Link to downloadable publications: https://unh.academia.edu/JoshuaMeyrowitz