This event, which took place at the Players Club on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, featured a conversation with author Joshua Meyrowitz about his groundbreaking 1985 book, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. Dr. Meyrowitz discussed the origin and substance of the book with longtime colleague and friend Paul Levinson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiqx86GCLA

Panelists

Joshua Meyrowitz, Ph.D., 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. In addition to authoring No Sense of Place and a book on a half-century struggle to protect the core property in Durham, NH, from overdevelopment, he has published over 100 articles on media and society that have appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in general-interest magazines and newspapers.

Paul Levinson, Ph.D., is Professor at Fordham University. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, Borrowed Tides, The Plot to Save Socrates, Unburning Alexandria, Chronica, and It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles. His novelette “The Chronology Protection Case” was made into a short film and is on Amazon Prime Video. His novelette, “Robinson Calculator,” was published in the Robots Through the Ages anthology in July 2023. He was President of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) 1998-2001. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, and New New Media, have been translated into 15 languages.