The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
In fact, print allowed the rapid spread not only of scientific facts but also of religious fantasies, fake news, and conspiracy theories.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
But if the facts were elusive, the digital world had transmitted half-truths and lies at a speed and scale that would have been unimaginable even a decade earlier. The patient work of journalists to take time to discover what actually happened was buried in the avalanche of rumour – and then invisible except to the relatively tiny minority who stil
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Pre-internet, it was immensely challenging for individual writers and other content creators to get distribution. For journalists, the primary path to making an income consisted of joining an established news organization with an advertising department, production capabilities, and delivery processes.
Li Jin • Four implications of disruption theory for the Passion Economy
Mass production of books ended the Church’s monopoly on Scripture, as well as on other forms of information. The wider availability of books reduced the cost of literacy and thus multiplied the number of thinkers who were in a position to offer their own opinions on important subjects, particularly theological subjects.