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This is a guest post contributed by Anuj Srivas, tech. journalist and blogger, until recently the author of Hypertext, The Hindu. “Once every hundred years, media changes,” social media king Mark Zuckerberg declared at a Facebook advertising event seven years … Continue reading
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Tagged Bennett Coleman and Company, brand building, Mark Zuckerberg, media theory, Prem Panicker, social advertisements, social media policy, Times of India
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Plotting a technological history of journalism
Electric telegraph July 27, 1866 – SS Great Eastern completes laying of Transatlantic telegraphic cables By 1852, miles of American telegraphic wires had grown from 40 in 1846 to 23,000 In 1849-1869, telegraphic mileage had increased by 108,000 miles Cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Amusing Ourselves to Death, communication technology, electric telegraph, journalism, media theory, Michael Mandelbaum, Neil Postman, Newton Minow, psychohistory, Susan Sontag, vast wasteland
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de Tocqueville & the news
That the switch from newspapers to digital handheld devices – for the purpose of sourcing all my news – is limited only by my comfort-level with technology is telling of some shortcoming of the print industry. The changing journalistic scene … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, governance, media theory, Neil Postman, news, print journalism
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