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processes of digital media.
The examples of the mail art movement, Omnibus News and FILE magazine indicate a shift
in social and cultural practices from the 1950’s. The examples of this essay outline not only
some of the connections to be made with our technological history, but also the cultural
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connected and facilitated by media, however our technological, cultural and social history
indicates that the operational and philosophical principles of digital media have existed in
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manifest such ideals. Such a perspective sheds new light on the symbiotic relationship of
society and technology. A cultural­historical approach to studying technology illuminates
how artistic movements can manifest social practices that technology instantiates.
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