There's an interesting comment by John Postill on the timeline at > http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/media-and-social-change-since-19... I may have missed some earlier comment on this thread referencing this, so apologies if so. Anyway, fw a nonexpert opinion iw............ Cheers, Bill William Bain PhD Student Dept. of Literary Theory Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona