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Mass Media

December 30, 2003

Both media machines and computing machines were absolutely necessary for the functioning of modern mass societies. The ability to disseminate the same texts images and sounds to millions of citizens – thus assuring the same ideological beliefs – was as essential as the ability to keep track of their birth records employment records medical records and police records.

Lev Manovitch: The Language of New Media p. 22.