Media have a profound effect on the dissemination of ideologies and practices. This was as true with the invention of papyrus as it was with the later inventions of the codex and the printing press, just as it was with the computer, the internet, the cellphone, and as it has been throughout the digital revolution of the last twenty years. In the course …
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