Chapter 7 wrap-up
You have now finished Chapter 7.
This chapter has shown that the effects of communication should not be dismissed. To dismiss them is to ignore that they can be real – indeed, they can be lived; to dismiss them is also to dangerously neglect the power they have in their imagined form, and the powerful role they continue to play in public discourse about communication and its relationship with social problems.
Moreover, as communication becomes more participatory, the effects of media become everybody’s problem and everybody’s responsibility. Find out more about this in the next chapter, when we discuss participatory culture.
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