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050 4 _aHM 741
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100 1 _aStandage, Tom,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aWriting on the wall :
_bsocial media, the first two thousand years /
_cTom Standage.
250 _aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bBloomsbury,
_c2013.
300 _aviii, 278 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
505 0 _aCicero'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.
520 _aChronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
650 0 _aSocial media
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCommunication.
650 0 _aMass media.
650 0 _aSocial networks.
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