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Media Studies
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When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.
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― The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe
― The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe
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If you're too young to remember the Time Before Pong, then you probably can't appreciate the momentousness of its arrival. Bear in mind the game emerged in a very different world. It was a time before home computers, cable television, cell phones, game consoles, the Internet--everything we take for granted today. For many of my formative years, we still watched TV in black and white, and had to get up to change the channel. This was the technological Dark Ages. Had we been less culturally enligh
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― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
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