Media saturate our attention

But, something important has stayed very much the same. Since the middle of the twentieth century media have saturated our everyday life. We need to go back and think about this longer history, to see the ubiquitous presence of media in our everyday life as something that has been developing for nearly a century. And, to see the changes to media over the last generation are not just sparkly technological inventions, but rather as part of a particular kind of networked and flexible economic and political system that has been taking shape since at least the 1970s.