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The medium is the message.

TV news results in news becoming pageant hair, red dresses, and flag waving graphics. TV changed what it meant to be informed and the end state was what we have now.

It's easy to see that the social medium will and did change the message. It also changes what it means to be informed, but in a different way than TV did.

If we are the media does that mean it changes the form of what it means to be person and social life?




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