Media Mobilization

[caronbot]

Enzensberger (whose name I hate spelling out, so for the rest of this entire will be referred to as Mr. E) focused less on the technological aspects of media (it's power in terms of breaking down walls that contained older media) and how it was forming because of inadequacies in the older forms, and more on its social aspects and emergence due to

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Blue Ray Wins!

[scifi129]

Matt "found this particularly interesting ... two colliding notions ... one of media naturally evolving because of its own limitations, and the other of it evolving because the needs of people changing... very similar reasons, if not one and the same

[digital_liz]

Enzensberger writes that "by making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence."

This puts me in mind of all the cell phone technology that we have out today. Apple puts out the iPhone, and those who buy it believe they are special, unique for having it. But immediately the market becomes flooded with all sorts of other products almost exactly the same as the iPhone. The people who bought the iPhone in the first place can't exactly call themselves special snowflakes anymore because of all these copies out there.

-Liz A, who thinks Enzensberger isn't as hard to type as Aghjayan