Blogging in the Eighteenth Century
Robert Darnton, “Blogging, Now and Then (250 years ago)”
Columbia University, New York, 16 November 2010
Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the “anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means today. Anecdotes, dispensed by “libellistes” and “paragraph men,” became a staple in the daily diet of news consumed by readers in eighteenth-century France and England. They were also pilfered, reworked, and served up in books. By tracking anecdotes through texts, we can reassess a rich strain of history and literature.
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16 November 2010, 8:00PM, 501 Schermerhorn Hall
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Thank you for pointing this out, I will have to attend