The Excellent Adventure

Abstract

The technological progress of mass media itr the culnral sphere' is
usuany;;alu;ed in iicrrotomies. tre newcomers are seemed to abolish the
"iJ ""i* frt" *o*"y to pres€rve the "good old tlrings" can be seel as disin-
[gration to mocernity 'modemity is an open question- however it i1n9t Tsy
to"celeb,rate the newconers always in suppofl of democratic participation
*hi*r is ,oppo.eO to be inherent to modernity' As Marshal B€rman pointed
o"," .oOoii y it tometrow both subject to progrcssive and regessive arguments itr human condition (Beman,1991' 13-14):

Keywords

• Excellent
• Adventure
• technological

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