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My argument in this book builds from this rather modest and unexceptional beginning. It conncerns the role of the media in the formation of social, civic and
moral and moral space. ... Of course different media allow us to do diffferent things; they provide diffferent social and political affordances. But together, in the array of possible technologies, delivery systems, platforms, discourses, texts, modes of address, as well as in the patterns of our use of them, they define a space that is increasingly mutually referential and reinforcive, and increasingly integratd into the fabric of everyday life. The media are becoming environmental.
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