Further responses to Bolter Questions

From Dan's blog:
With the merging of mediums or changes in mediums, like new media, what effect does this have on culture? or does the culture change the medium?

My response:
Media and culture seem to have a mutual influence on each other. There are different things driving change in each of them, but the changes that take place have influences on both. Technology has an influence on what types of media are available, but culture can determine which media are actually utilized. After making this point, it seems like media is poised to have a larger impact on culture than vice versa. What a culture expresses is determined by the manner in which things can be expressed, so while culture influences what media are used, the media has a say in how that influence is made. I might not be explaining this very well, but I'm going to say that media has the larger impact in the mutual relationship of media and culture.