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Writing on the wall : social media - the first 2,000 years / Tom Standage.
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9781408842065 (paperback)
1408842068 (paperback)
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Standage, Tom
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Writing on the wall : social media - the first 2,000 years / Tom Standage.
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London Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Description
viii, 278 pages : Illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents
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 -- History retweets itself.
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Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero's Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years offering an illuminating perspective on the history of media, and revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today - they also link us to the past.
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Social media -- History
Mass media
Social networks
Communication
Written communication -- History
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Communication
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Mass media
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Social media -- History
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Social networks
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Written communication -- History
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See Also:
Business communication
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Communication in organizations
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Communicative competence
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Cybernetics
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Diffusion of innovations
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Intercultural communication
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Language and languages
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Language arts
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Mass media
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Nonverbal communication
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Oral communication
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Persuasion (Psychology)
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Popular culture
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Sociology
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Visual communication
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Written communication
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Communication
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Newspapers
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Sex role in mass media
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Television broadcasting
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Violence in mass media
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Women in mass media
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