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Writing On The Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years (2013)

by Tom Standage(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1620402831 (ISBN13: 9781620402832)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: Fascinating narrative about how far back “social media” goes. Folks, Twitter and blogging are not at all new! Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Middle-agers, 17th century pamphleteers, ham radio operators, coffeehouse habitués, and so many more all did pretty much the same thing: obsessively share news and gossip as a way to stay connected with fellow humans. This an excellent précis how our species learned to communicate and how that’s changed our world. And who knows what will follow all this texting and Facebooking? Other media are definitely on the way. Rating: 2.5 out of 5 tweets.
review 2: Explores the common thesis that social media, far from an emergent phenomenon, is a return to the regular pattern of human interaction, with the mass media of TV and n... moreewspapers representing the exception from the norm. A decent rip through the history of communication but weaker when attempting to tie everything back to the latest technology ('and this Roman pantheon is what we see on Twitter today', etc) less

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