WRITING  ON  THE  WALL
Subtitle: Social Media -- The First 2,000 years
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hard cover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781620402832
Description: Advance reading copy via amazon.com/vine
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction: Cicero's Web 1; title: 1. The Ancient Foundations of Social Media: Why Humans Are Wired for Sharing 6; title: 2. The Roman Media: The First Social-Media Ecosystem 21; title: 3. How Luther Went Viral: The Role of Social Media in Revolutions ((I) 48; title: 4. Poetry in Motion: Social Media for Self-Expression and Self-Promotion 64; title: 5. Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple: The Challenges of Regulating Social Media 82; title: 6. And So to the Coffeehouse: How Social Media Promotes Innovation 104; title: 7. The Liberty of Printing: The Role of Social Media in Revolutions (2) 124; title: 8. The Sentinel of the People: Tyranny, Optimism, and Social Media 147; title: 9. The Rise of Mass Media: The Centralization Begins 170; title: 10. The Opposite of Social Media: Media in the Broadcast Era 189; title: 11. The Rebirth of Social Media: From ARPANET to Facebook 214; title: Epilogue: History Retweets Itself 240; title: Acknowledgments 000; title: Notes 251; title: Sources 257; title: Index 000