Writing on the wall : social media -- the first 2,000 years /

From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used to exchange news across the Empire to the advent of hand-printed tracts of the Reformation to the pamphlets that spread propaganda during the American and French revolutions, Tom Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared...

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Main Author: Standage, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Cicero's web -- The ancient foundations of social media: Why humans are wired for sharing -- The Roman media: The first social-media ecosystem -- How Luther went viral: The role of social media in revolutions (1) -- Poetry in motion: Social media for self-expression and self-promotion -- Let truth and falsehood grapple: the challenges of regulating social media -- And so to the coffeehouse: How social media promotes innovation -- The liberty of printing: The role of social media in revolutions (2) -- The sentinel of the people: Tyranny, optimism, and social media -- The rise of mass media: The centralization begins -- The opposite of social media: Media in the broadcast era -- The rebirth of social media: From ARPANET to Facebook -- Epilogue: History retweets itself. 
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