Consumers and citizens

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   Mass media gives way to a consumer-driven techno-cultural revolution.
   
   But we need to remember the difference between consumers and citizens. We are technoconsumers, not technocitizens; and as we celebrate our techno-cultural possibilities, we forget that much of the supposedly independent and free-spirited techno-culture is being engineered (or rapidly acquired) by a handful of media and technology leviathans: News Corp., Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google, the budding General Motors of the Information Age.
   
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