Rogness quotes Peter Conrad’s blunt assessment: “Television talk is not conversation but a celebration of visibility.… Talk on television isn’t meant to be listened to.”62 Tex Sample, in The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World, shows how changes initiated by television have been accelerated by the advent of computers and the Internet. Parents with children in school or college share mutual amazement at how their children’s study always seems to be accompanied by loud music, a split monitor with