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Writing on the wall social media, the first two thousand years

Chronicles 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.

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Main Author: Standage, Tom (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Social media > History.
Communication.
Mass media.
Social networks.
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Summary:Chronicles 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.
Physical Description:viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
ISBN:9781620402832 :
1620402831
Author Notes:Tom Standage is a journalist and author from England. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked as a science and technology writer for The Guardian, as the business editor at The Economist, has been published in Wired, The New York Times, and The Daily Telegraph. His non-fiction works include The Victorian Internet, A History of the World in Six Glasses, An Edible History of Humanity (on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014), and Writing on the Wall: Social Media -- The First 2,000 Years.

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