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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:57:56 -0600
From: Danny Winbush <dow2@ra.msstate.edu>
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Subject: New tribalized society.
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For those of you who are inclined in such directions there is an 
interesting short, very short, article in this months publication of 
_Wired_ magazine in which there is a dialogue with Derrick de Kerckhove. 
In this article he points out some of the differences between McLuhan's 
(the message is the medium or the medium is the message) television and
radio age and its impact on society and the way in which the Internet is
shaping present ideology. The way in which it is creating the new 
tribalized society.  He points out that in the radio and television age 
the information that was put out over the airways was controled by the 
ownership of the medium.  But the Internet is not owned by any one 
entity (not yet anyway) and that this lack of ownership will restrict 
the abilty to indoctrinate people who have access to it.

The article is not very substantive in its length but it is quite 
thought provoking.  There should be a paper in there somewhere.

"Never be afraid to challenge the existing belief system." [Danny 
Winbush]

***********************************************************************                               Danny Winbush
                            dow2@ra.msstate.edu
                        http://www2.msstate.edu/~dow2
                           Dum anima est, spes est.
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