With the introduction of the concept of metaverse, more and more scholars are focusing onthe core concepts of communication, “media and new media”. And whether the concept of media itselfhas changed and whether it will have an impact on people’s social life has become an urgent issue fordiscussion. For a long time, many scholars who have advocated that media will have a decisive impacton the human world have been labelled as “technological determinists”. In an era where everythingis mediated, the society is increasingly understood as a whole being starting from, mediated by, andparticipating in the mediating role of media. More and more scholars have rediscovered the value of“media determinism” and renamed the stigmatized “determinism”. This paper attempts to present themainstream academic viewpoints through an overview of the development of media determinism, andtries to provide an alternative perspective for understanding human-media interactions.