"It is often said that television has altered our world."

Procrastinating while planning a paper on cross-media news production and multimodality, I'm currently reading an old classic, Raymond Williams' Television: Technology and Cultural Form. Written in 1973, and perhaps best known for Williams' discussion of television's continuity, its 'flow'. I'm struck by how relevant the discussion and rejection of technological determinism, and the discussion of the relationship between technology and culture are for thinking about today's new media technologies.