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July 19, 2004
The integration of different modes of communication
Soon it will be an interactive network. The formation of a hypertext and a meta-language which, for the first time in history, integrate into the same sytem the written, oral, and audio-visual modalities of human communication.
As Postman writes, " we do not see... reality... as 'it' is, but as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. our metaphors create the content of our culture. "
Because culture is mediated and enacted through communication, culture themselves- that is, our historically produced systems of beliefs and codes-become fundamentally transformed, and will be more so over time, by the new technology system.
--Castells, "The Rise of the Networked Society", p357
Posted by Xiao at July 19, 2004 09:13 AM
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