Paul Levinson

In the early days of the invention of the film, people thought it was a fun new thing, watching actors sing, laugh, and sneeze in the film, and they were full of praise for the experience brought by this new technology, it was like a new toy Attracting everyone; then, the film gradually developed in the direction of "documentary", and the shooting material became people's daily life, reflecting social phenomena like a mirror; after the advent of editing technology, the film has the ability to abstract and abstract reality. The ability to reconstruct has become a kind of popular art, reaching the highest stage of media evolution.

That's also another theory about media and technology that influence my work a lot.
It is even more interesting if combined with Freud's psychodynamic theory. In the "id" stage of the medium, people are full of desires, pay attention to pleasure, see "form", and be aware of "outside".

As the media adapts to human beings and evolves, it gradually enters the stage of "self", begins to integrate with human beings and feeds back to human beings, people begin to see "self" and become aware of "inner".

When the media once again broke through the restrictions and broke out of the constraints of human society, the media entered a state of "superego", looking down from the top of human heads, giving humans a sense of "outside the body" and making people aware of "us".

In general, Levinson's "Media Evolution Theory" expounds the changing trend that "technology" and "content" complement each other from one side——