The Excellent Adventure

The technological progress of mass media itr the culnral sphere' isusuany;;alu;ed in iicrrotomies. tre newcomers are seemed to abolish the"iJ ""i* frt" *o*"y to pres€rve the "good old tlrings" can be seel as disin-[gration to mocernity 'modemity is an open question- however it i1n9t Tsyto"celeb,rate the newconers always in suppofl of democratic participation*hi*r is ,oppo.eO to be inherent to modernity' As Marshal B€rman pointedo"," .oOoii y it tometrow both subject to progrcssive and regessive arguments itr human condition (Beman,1991' 13-14):

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The Excellent Adventure

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This paper is an enlarged version o! u-!"tntlt work I had presented in a course called "popl porn, pulp, politics" of the department "communicadonsandlmagestudies,'-intheUniversityofKentatCantefbury, MaY 1993.
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