The Rise of the Media Machine:Machine Genealogy and Technology Networks
With the popularization of mechanical printing,media machines have quietly stepped onto the stage of history.The e-mergence and promotion of digital media have further endowed media machines with the capability to create a mediated field,thereby contouring the modern social landscape.This transformation garnered significant attention from the Frankfurt School and the Media Environment School,who,drawing inspiration from the genealogy of machine research,established the genealogical framework for media machine research.However,with the advent of a series of media machines such as computers and AR-PANETS,and notably,the emergence of generative AI capable of engaging in open-domain,multi-round dialogues,media ma-chines not only give a soul to the hard infrastructure,but also enable the society to realize the interconnection of all things through the soft infrastructure of human language,knowledge and computing power,which undoubtedly indicates the complete rise of media machines and ignites the imagination of contemporary researchers on media machine.