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For as long as humans have been interacting with new media technologies, they have also created monsters to haunt them. When photography became mainstream in the late 19th century, for example, it wasn’t long before entertainers and spiritualists were using the technology to “capture spirits” through the process of double exposure. Similarly, the radio, the […]https://counter.theconversation.edu.au/content/71338/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic