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Book: Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
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  1. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as "internetworking" or
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  2. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers' own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.
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  3. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    social media is not new. It has been around for centuries. Today, blogs are the new pamphlets. Microblogs and online social networks are the new coffee houses. Media-sharing sites are the new commonplace books. They are all shared, social platforms that enable ideas to travel from one person to another, rippling through networks of people connected by social bonds, rather than having to squeeze through the privileged bottleneck of broadcast media. The rebirth of social media in the Internet age represents a profound shift-and a return, in many respects, to the way things used to be.
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  4. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.
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  5. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled."
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  6. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.
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  7. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  8. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression.
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  9. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    ...people enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others
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  10. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.
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  11. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    {In the computer era we have returned to the custom of scrolling through texts, but we now scroll up and down, rather than right to left as the Romans did.}
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  12. Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social

    All this will come as a surprise to modern Internet users who may assume that today's social-media environment is unprecedented. But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.
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