Public Life in the Era of Communicative Abundance

Abstract

Modern communications media since the invention of the printing press have been dominated by images of scarcity. In contrast, the emergence of a new galaxy of communications marked by the (potential) integration of text, sounds, and images, interacting in the same system from multiple user points, in chosen time (real or delayed) within a modularized and ultimately global network that is affordable and accessible, is now stimulating the growth of images of abundance which, it is argued, is unstable, even self-contradictory. Communicative abundance prevents communicative abundance.

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