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Writing on the Wall
by Tom Standage
Social media's two-thousand-year history: Cicero's letters, Luther's pamphlets, coffeehouses, pamphlet wars. Networks before the internet.
Read it if…
you want social media denaturalized.
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Skip it if…
you want current platforms.
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Three things you will actually use
- Sharing is ancient.
- Pamphlets were posts.
- Mass media was the anomaly.
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Read the chapter on Luther.
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