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What are we losing?

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What are we losing?

Media as tools, ecology, and culture.

Alex Reynolds
Mar 29, 2021
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What are we losing?

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Before we move on, I think it’s helpful to summarize what we’ve explored so far:

  1. Mediums dictate the form of messages that can go through them. Not all communication is created to carry all types of messages.

  2. Media extend our senses. In the “electric” age, this has caused us a great deal of anxiety.

  3. Each medium can be thought of as a metaphor that imposes …

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