Which lens (from any number of lenses) might we use?

Is this claim true: “One ironic benefit of the digital revolution has been renewed interest in the history of ‘print culture,’ though often marred by the tendency to view the later monolithically and focus comparisons narrowly on “technology.” Many paradoxes are more easily resolved and phenomena better understood if we instead view them from the perspective of genre, with historically conditioned conventions of reading and writing.” 

•  Do we see digitality monolithically? Meaning, do we too quickly flatten the differences in order to give a singular, broad view of communication in the digital era? 
• Do we – has this class – overly focused on technology as opposed to social movements? 
• Is genre a more productive lens for understanding a history of text technology?