I think the New Media Reader (NMR) was talking to me about itself… Well, at least the first two authors were talking to me about the NMR.

I do believe that I have never seen a textbook author refer to the textbook during an article. I actually had to stop reading and ponder over the perplexity of this matter. (Did you like my little alliteration?)

The most interesting quote that I took from the reading was on page 19. In talking about the new “ideological tropes” associated with new media, Lev claims that “it will contribute to ‘the erosion of moral values’; it will destroy the ‘natural relationship between humans and the world’ by eliminating the distance ‘between the observer and the observed.’” I have written in my margin: “Holy Poop”.