"Magnetic tape was one of the first opportunities Americans had to
access, create, and distribute content, disrupting the decades-old
industry control of media content. Invented in the 1930s, a surge of
user-friendly products in the 1970s made magnetic tape accessible to the
consumer market. Chapter 7 discusses how magnetic tape offered the
opportunity to capture, edit, copy, distribute, and play back content
that had once been proprietary or ephemeral. ... However, despite
magnetic tape's seismic effect on the media environment, the effects of
this media technology on user psychology is largely absent from the
literature. The chapter elaborates on the psychological impacts of
possessing and controlling content, creating content, and distributing
content independent of gatekeepers and how these opportunities tapped
into psychological needs and established an on-demand culture wherein
users expect to have their content available at their discretion and to
be used as they see fit."

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