Modern media is dangerous and distracting because it is endless by design.

当代媒体既危险又分散注意力，因为其设计之初就是无止境。

The first is that this is the first war in which the modern media was involved.

首先，这是现代媒体参与的第一场战争。

It helps us empathize in the way the modern media usually prevents.

它帮助我们理解现代媒体通常阻止的方式。

And for Ben Golub, his first encounter with modern social media was as an undergraduate student at Caltech.

对于本·戈卢布来说，他第一次接触现代社交媒体是在加州理工学院读本科时。

Amy was also unusual because she was very smart about using what was then " modern" media, in this case, the radio.

艾米也很不寻常，因为她非常聪明地使用当时的“现代”媒体，在这种情况下，是收音机。

“It’s also the present, the modern media landscape in which we live. The audience is a huge active participant in these sorts of stories, ” he said.

“这也是我们生活的当下， 现代媒体格局。 观众是这类故事的巨大积极参与者， “他说。

There are lots of things to dislike about modern social media, but there's far more appetite to change the way it works than to stop using it altogether.

现代社交媒体有很多令人不喜欢的地方，但人们更愿意改变它的工作方式， 而不是完全停止使用它。

Many television evangelists nowadays, use modern media, not just radio and film, but television and the Internet, in order to build their churches with large followings;that is, with large groups of people who have the same beliefs.

如今，许多电视传道人使用现代媒体， 不仅仅是广播和电影，还有电视和互联网， 以便建立拥有大量追随者的教会;也就是说，与具有相同信仰的大批人一起建立教会。