TY  - BOOK
AU  - Standage,Tom
TI  - Writing on the wall: social media -- the first two thousand years 
SN  - 9781620402856
AV  - HM741 .S73 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Social media
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Communication
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; Introduction: Cicero's web -- The ancient foundations of social media: why humans are wired for sharing -- The Roman media: the first social-media ecosystem -- How Luther went viral: the role of social media in revolutions (1) -- Poetry in motion: social media for self-expression and self-promotion -- Let truth and falsehood grapple: the challenges of regulating social media -- And so to the coffeehouse: how social media promotes innovation -- The liberty of printing: the role of social media in revolutions (2) -- The sentinel of the people: tyranny, optimism, and social media -- The rise of mass media: the centralization begins -- The opposite of social media: media in the broadcast era -- The rebirth of social media: from ARPANET to Facebook -- Epilogue: History retweets itself
ER  -