Beckett, Charlie (2014) The invention of news – how the world came to know about itself (book review). POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (16 Mar 2014). Website.
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Abstract
If you’ve been on this planet recently and have access to electricity, you are probably familiar with the assertion that ‘the Internet is the most important invention since Printing’. Indeed, for journalism scholars, looking back to Gutenberg can be a useful way to look forward beyond Berners-Lee, Zuckerberg and Jobs. But what about all the stuff in-between? How did we get from block printing presses to the modern idea of journalism and news? This fascinating book tells us.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2017 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77003 |
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