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The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Keen On America

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Pre-Internet Social Media

  • The Industrial Revolution disrupted conversations.
  • Luther, Gutenberg, and their era can be considered inventors of early social media, by creating publics around pamphlets, books, and translations.
  • Montaigne's essays, a form of talking to an imagined public, represent an early form of social media similar to blogging.
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