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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years - Community Reviews back

by Tom Standage
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chadkoh
chadkoh rated it 11 years ago
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 ...
katiewilkins186
katiewilkins186 rated it 11 years ago
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...
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