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by dredmorbius 3262 days ago
You might find Elizabeth Eisenstein's work of interest: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

I think we might see "Twitter as an Agent of Change" from a future historian. If we have future historians.

Oh, here it is, from 2013: https://earlyamericanists.com/2013/04/29/twitter-as-an-agent...

Eisenstein:

Book 1979: http://www.worldcat.org/title/printing-press-as-an-agent-of-...

Preliminary article, 1968: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1877720

Bio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eisenstein

Obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/books/elizabeth-eisenstei...

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Eisenstein's work is getting more attention this year, because it's the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Which, of course, couldn't have happened without the printing press and mass publication. It's a great book worth reading if you're into the geekier aspects of print history.
Quite honestly, I just happened to stumble across it last November. It strikes me as highly appropriate.