Changing Social Connections

„Social connections were also transformed beyond recognition. The invention of radio and television led to the rise of the mass media and a corresponding decline in direct human interactions with a merely social function. Evening meetings between neighbors, pub gatherings, harvest festivals, rituals, and celebrations—they were progressively replaced by consumption of what the media presented.“

Mattias DesmetMattias Desmet describes how radio and television replaced social connections and traditional rituals with media consumption.

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Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ghent.

Mass media have strongly changed social interactions and traditional rituals.

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Mattias Desmet|change, communication, culture, mass communication, mass media, society

Mattias Desmet teaches Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at the University of Ghent. His department's research is strongly clinically and practice-oriented. He focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of psychological counseling and psychoanalysis.