This is an interesting new medium, built on the foundations laid by a number of media that came before it - social networking, reality tv, soap operas, etc. As

This is an interesting new medium, built on the foundations laid by a number of media that came before it - social networking, reality tv, soap operas, etc. As always, McLuhan’s 4 questions are helpful in thinking about it: - What does the medium enhance? - What does the medium make obsolete? - What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier? - What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects