----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Beggs" <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The role of social media in the Egyptian uprising
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think after several posts I'm finally getting to what I think is core
>> here. "The Media" (social or otherwise) do not exist; they exist only as
>> embedded in social relations, and have no existence in abstraction from
>> that
>> context. They aren't even relations (mediations), they are tools as I
>> said
>> before. But since, even or especially in abstraction, they have not
>> independent existence, there is nothing to understand.
>
> In other words, the Medium Plays No Part in the Message. But new media
> make new audiences and/or new communicators possible, and/or change
> the rhythm of communication. Surely messages are partly shaped by the
> intended audience and partly by the rhythm (i.e., how fast exchanges
> take place)?
>
> Mike Beggs
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