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7 - A New Form of Self-Expression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2022

Yanna Krupnikov  and
John Barry Ryan
Yanna Krupnikov
Affiliation:
Stony Brook University
John Barry Ryan
Affiliation:
Stony Brook University
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In Back to the Future, one of the few things that Marty McFly takes with him from 1985 to 1955 is a camcorder. Marveling over the video camera, Doc Brown exclaims, “This is truly amazing; a portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor.” The camcorder is an amazing invention, but it is a limited one. Although it has one aspect of a television studio, it lacks its most important component: a true broadcasting antenna. Only people who are physically in the same area as the camcorder can see the recording.

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social mediapolitical expression imagined audience
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The Other Divide , pp. 167 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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