Media Literacy Challenge #5: “The medium is the message”

2026 Media Literacy Challenge # 5: Blog post header: "the medium is the message"

Socrates famously worried about the invention of writing for the way it would change what it means to know something. If Socrates was worried about moving from an oral culture to a literary culture, an analogous concern today might be about moving from a literary culture to a culture of image and video.

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