Writing On The Wall: Social Media The First 2,000 Years

Writing On The Wall: Social Media The First 2,000 YearsPapyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. 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

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