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In theories of media prior to the digital age, it was imagined that a liberated or socialized media would result in a proliferation of communications for, of, and by the people. It would be possible for media to emerge directly from their publics, and to represent those publics in their fundamental or foundational values and projects. Many theorists, including John Dewey (1927), Hans Enzensberger (1970), and Ivan lllich (1973), gave grounds to expect the general availability of mass communications to be a boon for humanist politics, either democratic or socialist.
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Wittkower, D. (2012). On The Origins of The Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital Culture. In: Luke, T.W., Hunsinger, J. (eds) Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play. Transdisciplinary Studies, vol 4. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-728-8_13
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