The Shannon Weaver model still applies to modern communication in a way, but it needs potential artificial and real parties to be added to the diagram. It really is only a tiny piece of the total modern communication diagram. The missing parties have the potential to change, redistribute, or destroy, duplicate, and mingle information before it reaches an expected, but unknown number of receiving parties.
There is a new communicating agent in the mix of sender, receiver, and the technology between. There are now artificially intelligent communicators that can continue to transmit and even produce information which can be relayed many more times and long after a message is sent. The information can transform and take a life of its own through multiple receivers and senders. We've crossed into an age where information is recorded, saved, and transmitted so easily that one can even do so unintentionally or barely intentionally. Human existance is slowly developing a parallel information mirror that exists as an ephemeral phantom in both the digital world and our mass consciousness.
To some degree the transfer of information has become as difficult to control as the viral life forms it is often compared to--closer to as contagious and indestructible as ideas themselves. As we build a mass memory of millions of servers, it becomes impossible to destroy all the copies, and our mass digital mind resembles both the cell-divided complexity and the interconnectivity of a single biological mind.
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