Posts tagged with word-of-mouth
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The first source of news was word of mouth and till this day it is the most popular, but is it word of mouth or word of font that has become the number one source of news? When you type twitter and news into google you get a million links saying the number one news […]
…everyone’s got one and they all stink. Or is it opinions? I get them confused seeing how interrelated having a twitter account and broadcasting your opinion can be. Professor Klein considers Twitter to be the new word-of-mouth when it comes to spreading the news, but if you’re going to spread news, then sooner or later […]
Before Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Before newspapers, pamphlets and gazettes there was only one way to get the news. Word-of-mouth. For over 102,000 years word-of-mouth has been used to transfer the latest news from one person to the next across vast regions. Stories of Pheidippides and Israel Bissell show us how far people went to spread the news. […]
Chinese contributions to news (and the world)
Posted by: briancain | September 17, 2009 | No Comment |The Chinese are credited with many inventions that helped change the world. Their “four great inventions” had enormous impacts throughout history. Two of those great inventions had direct impacts on the dissemination of news. China’s first major contribution to news, however, was not an invention. It was the domestication of the horse circa 3500 B.C. […]