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On the History and Hermeneutics of Comics | 39www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/1, 17–44 sUMMAry AND OUtLOOK the relationship between text and picture has changed several times in histo- ry. in the 19th century, innovations in technical production and reproduction were accompanied by the growing importance of the picture, in particular after the second half of the 19th century, and they gained tremendous momentum through audiovisual media, film and television.55 in the internet-based media of 55 As Paul Virilio (1991) showed, technical development and the audience’s affinity with the products thus made possible the formation of a circle. he locates the arms industry as the main stimulus for this de- velopment. in this context, it is of importance that the roots of the internet also lie in military purposes. the ArPAnet of the late 1960s was developed at the command of the U.s. Ministry of Defence. Fig. 16: Harris, Eleri Mai, Where did Islamic State come from, and what does it really want?, in: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-06/where-did-is-come-from,-and-what-does-it-really- want/7369802 [accessed 6 Dec. 2016].