Poster Quotes to Ponder

#1:
"Television changes us into creatures with visual dominance not by what it says but by its (technical) mode of communication. And so it is with all media, although I would argue that the pertinent object of change is not the sense ratio but rather the human-machine interface, the general construction of the self, indeed the basic features of culture" (p. 38).

#2:
"One danger to be avoided in this process is to configure the non-Western societies as victims of advanced technology. Quite the reverse can be argued: those who benefit most from the dissemination of global media are those whose local values are most put in question (Chow 1996). They are the ones who might gain significantly from the foreign 'invasion' in having the opportunity of critical self-reflection and developing the most innovative responses and adaptations for the benefit of all" (p. 83).

#3:
"The digitization of narrative that enables an extreme separation in space between narrator and listener, as well as an instantaneity of transmission of the narrative and response to it, and requires a globally networked machine mediation that envelopes the narrative" (p. 129).