Gary Gumpert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5508671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Gumpert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Gumpert |
| SIGNATURE | GUMPERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Media ecology takes an urban turn
This article provides a sampling of the contributions of foundational media ecology scholars to our understanding of urban communication. Such scholars include Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford and Walter Benjamin
Steps in the street
Communicative Cities
The quality of communication within cities makes a significant difference to the overall quality of human life. The question `what makes a city communicative?' has several interpretations: (1) how does a city communicate and (2) how does it facilitate communication? This article proposes a communication paradigm from which to examine the urban landscape. It explores the efforts of the Urban Communication Foundation to develop criteria for a commu…
In the Search for Me(dia ecology)
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Ubiquitous Technology in the Media Age and the Ideal of Sustainability
Ideas about sustainability can be distilled into two primary strands: (a) the sustainable media environment in which communication technology is seen as a fundamental social and economic force, and (b) sustainable development in which community, self-sufficiency, and conservation are key partners associated with the focus on local conditions, including natural resources, politics, features of the community, and quality of life. The problem is tha…
The Demise of Privacy in a Private World: From Front Porches to Chat Rooms
From the 1970s onward there has been a consistent increase in not only the value placed on privacy, but the concern with threats to personal privacy. As place is shunned and evaded, interpersonal integration in local community is reduced, accompanied by a retreat into private space and a greater concern with regard to technologically enhanced threats to privacy. Whereas the value placed upon personal privacy has changed over time, so have the med…
Freedom and Liability in Cyberspace: Media, Metaphors, and Paths of Regulation
Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape
Journal Article Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape Get access Gary Gumpert, Gary Gumpert 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susan J. Drucker Susan J. Drucker 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 4, December 1994, Pages 169–177, https://doi.org/1…
From the agora to the electronic shopping mall
From the agora, to the market, to "main street," places of commerce have been traditional sites for interpersonal interaction. With the development of strip malls, shopping malls, mail order alternatives, and the electronic options provided by the computer, telephone, and fax, the life and commerce of the street have been altered radically. Shop‐at‐home television has become a billion‐dollar industry in the United States. This paper examines the …
Public Space and Communication: The Zoning of Public Interaction
This essay explores the relationships among environmental planning and design, social interaction, and media development. Interaction in a public place and the need and form of the most basic type of communication—face-to-face interpersonal communication - has been altered by media consumption. Architecture and design, media technologies, and patterns of social interaction influence each other in complex ways. Zoning laws, through which design an…
Linguistic Character and a Theory of Mediation
Media grammars, generations, and media gaps
This essay argues that the traditional concept of the “generation” as the signifier of separate human time relationships be replaced by the concept of human groups based on media relationships. It takes the position that today people are connected or separated more by media experience than by chronological years. This position is developed through an examination of how new media develop their own grammars, the way individuals acquire media litera…
Mediated interpersonal communication: Toward a new typology
Traditional conceptualizations of communication have excluded media or relegated them to a minor role as components of channel. Furthermore, the exclusive identification of media with "mass communication" has restricted understanding of the symbiotic relationship of media and interpersonal communication. This essay argues that media pervade all dimensions of human communication and must be considered in all research. It examines the category "med…
The Rise of Mini-Comm
Journal Article The Rise of Mini-Comm Get access Gary Gumpert Gary Gumpert 1Gary Gumpert (Ph.D., Wayne State University) is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Queens College of the City University of New York. While at Wayne State University, he served as a producer-director for WTVS-TV. Dr. Gumpert was also the Director of Instructional Television Development and Utilization and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Ra…
Family diagnosis and therapy using videotape playback
Diagnostic sessions of families in therapy were videotaped and played back on TV screens to patients and therapists. Problems became clearer and more readily available to the families for their own treatment. A theory of communicational feedback is proposed
Public Space and Communication: The Zoning of Public Interaction
This essay explores the relationships among environmental planning and design, social interaction, and media development. Interaction in a public place and the need and form of the most basic type of communication—face-to-face interpersonal communication - has been altered by media consumption. Architecture and design, media technologies, and patterns of social interaction influence each other in complex ways. Zoning laws, through which design an…
Mediated interpersonal communication: Toward a new typology
Traditional conceptualizations of communication have excluded media or relegated them to a minor role as components of channel. Furthermore, the exclusive identification of media with "mass communication" has restricted understanding of the symbiotic relationship of media and interpersonal communication. This essay argues that media pervade all dimensions of human communication and must be considered in all research. It examines the category "med…
Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape
Journal Article Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape Get access Gary Gumpert, Gary Gumpert 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susan J. Drucker Susan J. Drucker 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 4, December 1994, Pages 169–177, https://doi.org/1…
Communicative Cities
The quality of communication within cities makes a significant difference to the overall quality of human life. The question `what makes a city communicative?' has several interpretations: (1) how does a city communicate and (2) how does it facilitate communication? This article proposes a communication paradigm from which to examine the urban landscape. It explores the efforts of the Urban Communication Foundation to develop criteria for a commu…
The Demise of Privacy in a Private World: From Front Porches to Chat Rooms
From the 1970s onward there has been a consistent increase in not only the value placed on privacy, but the concern with threats to personal privacy. As place is shunned and evaded, interpersonal integration in local community is reduced, accompanied by a retreat into private space and a greater concern with regard to technologically enhanced threats to privacy. Whereas the value placed upon personal privacy has changed over time, so have the med…
Family diagnosis and therapy using videotape playback
Diagnostic sessions of families in therapy were videotaped and played back on TV screens to patients and therapists. Problems became clearer and more readily available to the families for their own treatment. A theory of communicational feedback is proposed
The Rise of Mini-Comm
Journal Article The Rise of Mini-Comm Get access Gary Gumpert Gary Gumpert 1Gary Gumpert (Ph.D., Wayne State University) is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Queens College of the City University of New York. While at Wayne State University, he served as a producer-director for WTVS-TV. Dr. Gumpert was also the Director of Instructional Television Development and Utilization and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Ra…
Mediated interpersonal communication: Toward a new typology
Traditional conceptualizations of communication have excluded media or relegated them to a minor role as components of channel. Furthermore, the exclusive identification of media with "mass communication" has restricted understanding of the symbiotic relationship of media and interpersonal communication. This essay argues that media pervade all dimensions of human communication and must be considered in all research. It examines the category "med…
Media grammars, generations, and media gaps
This essay argues that the traditional concept of the “generation” as the signifier of separate human time relationships be replaced by the concept of human groups based on media relationships. It takes the position that today people are connected or separated more by media experience than by chronological years. This position is developed through an examination of how new media develop their own grammars, the way individuals acquire media litera…
Linguistic Character and a Theory of Mediation
Public Space and Communication: The Zoning of Public Interaction
This essay explores the relationships among environmental planning and design, social interaction, and media development. Interaction in a public place and the need and form of the most basic type of communication—face-to-face interpersonal communication - has been altered by media consumption. Architecture and design, media technologies, and patterns of social interaction influence each other in complex ways. Zoning laws, through which design an…
From the agora to the electronic shopping mall
From the agora, to the market, to "main street," places of commerce have been traditional sites for interpersonal interaction. With the development of strip malls, shopping malls, mail order alternatives, and the electronic options provided by the computer, telephone, and fax, the life and commerce of the street have been altered radically. Shop‐at‐home television has become a billion‐dollar industry in the United States. This paper examines the …
Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape
Journal Article Public Space and Urban Life: Challenges in the Communication Landscape Get access Gary Gumpert, Gary Gumpert 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susan J. Drucker Susan J. Drucker 1Communication Landscapes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 4, December 1994, Pages 169–177, https://doi.org/1…
Freedom and Liability in Cyberspace: Media, Metaphors, and Paths of Regulation
The Demise of Privacy in a Private World: From Front Porches to Chat Rooms
From the 1970s onward there has been a consistent increase in not only the value placed on privacy, but the concern with threats to personal privacy. As place is shunned and evaded, interpersonal integration in local community is reduced, accompanied by a retreat into private space and a greater concern with regard to technologically enhanced threats to privacy. Whereas the value placed upon personal privacy has changed over time, so have the med…
Ubiquitous Technology in the Media Age and the Ideal of Sustainability
Ideas about sustainability can be distilled into two primary strands: (a) the sustainable media environment in which communication technology is seen as a fundamental social and economic force, and (b) sustainable development in which community, self-sufficiency, and conservation are key partners associated with the focus on local conditions, including natural resources, politics, features of the community, and quality of life. The problem is tha…
Communicative Cities
The quality of communication within cities makes a significant difference to the overall quality of human life. The question `what makes a city communicative?' has several interpretations: (1) how does a city communicate and (2) how does it facilitate communication? This article proposes a communication paradigm from which to examine the urban landscape. It explores the efforts of the Urban Communication Foundation to develop criteria for a commu…
In the Search for Me(dia ecology)
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Steps in the street
Media ecology takes an urban turn
This article provides a sampling of the contributions of foundational media ecology scholars to our understanding of urban communication. Such scholars include Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford and Walter Benjamin
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)