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{{quote|"In the old days when everyone played with, I don't know, wooden pegs, kids couldn't wait to do their homework."|'''[[Charlie Brooker]]''', ''Gameswipe'' on [[Just One More Level|video game addiction]]}}▼
{{quote|"I asked Mr Vann which [[British Education System|O levels]] you need to write [[Sitcom|situation comedy]] for television. Mr Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron."|''The Secret Diary of [[Adrian Mole]] Aged 13¾''}}▼
== New Media in General ==
{{quote|"We don't like, what we don't, understand in fact it scares us..."|'''The mob''' from ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', accurate to what most people feel about it. }}
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{{quote|"All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. The new media are not ways of relating us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will."|'''Marshall McLuhan'''}}
== New Media of the [[The Fifties|1950s]]: [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲{{quote|"I asked Mr Vann which [[British Education System|O levels]] you need to write [[Sitcom|situation comedy]] for television. Mr Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron."|''The Secret Diary of [[Adrian Mole]] Aged 13¾''}}
== New Media of the [[The Eighties|1980s]]: [[Video Games]] ==
▲{{quote|"In the old days when everyone played with, I don't know, wooden pegs, kids couldn't wait to do their homework."|'''[[Charlie Brooker]]''', ''Gameswipe'' on [[Just One More Level|video game addiction]]}}
{{quote|"Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They may not have an open mind to new things that weren't around when they were growing up, and are replacing the things they grew up with... over the years I've seen this standard image of a child playing a video game in which the child is alone in a darkened room, with his face very close to the TV, with the light of the TV reflecting off his face, holding the controller and just staring at the TV. I'd really like to be able to change that image of video games into something that's a little more positive."|'''[[Shigeru Miyamoto]]'''}}
== New Media of the [[The New Tens|2010s]]: [[Web Original]] ==
{{quote|"We've got to nip this Internet thing in the bud..."|Attributed to both '''Sen. James Exon''' and '''Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas''', circa 1996}}
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