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In this series of videos, we are going to explore some of the effects of modern communication technology use. The media and educational gate keepers of old have been irreparably weakened by the rise of the internet in social media. But these technologies are also being used to manipulate us through censorship and rampant propaganda. These technologies have an addictive side that promotes anxiety, disorders and a wasted life. In the first evidio of this series, we will explore how the use of these technologies is altering how many of us answer the fundamental question who am i?

“WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?” These were the first words sent over the newly invented electric telegraph machine in May 1844. This message proved to be prophetic. For the communication technologies that followed in the wake of the telegraph, from the telephone, to the radio, to TV, computers, the internet, and now smart phones and social […]

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