Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
by:
Tom Standage (author)
Tom Standage,Hardcover, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Bloomsbury USA on 10-15-2013
Tom Standage,Hardcover, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Bloomsbury USA on 10-15-2013
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781620402832 (1620402831)
ASIN: 1620402831
Publish date: October 15th 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
A fine book (narrated well by Simon Vance), with a fine thesis, but the middle bit tends to sag as it is merely a short history of media. It does make it a good book for the ages, when we are all watching trideo, jacked into the matrix through direct neural links, but it does make it longer than it ...
Writing on the Wall is about all of the ingenious and fascinating ways that information has been transmitted over the centuries. The author is able to draw surprising parallels between ancient media and the social media of today. These comparisons inform discussions of issues still relevant today, s...