OMG! TWITTER HAS ROOTS IN THE 17TH CENTURY
STANFORD (US) — The surge of information via social media is absolutely nothing new. Europeans were similarly pounded with an avalanche of new interaction forms throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
"In the 17th century, discussion exploded," says Anaïs Saint-Jude, supervisor of the BiblioTech program at Stanford College. "It was a very early modern variation of information overload."
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Public postal systems were the equivalent of Twitter and google, Twitter, Google+, and mobile phones. Letters crisscrossed Paris by the thousands everyday. Voltaire was writing 10 to 15 letters a day. Dramatist Jean Racine grumbled that he could not stay up to date with the hostile letter writing. His "inbox" was complete.
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The Copernican Transformation, the innovation of the publishing push, and the expedition of the New Globe all had to be psychologically digested at the same time. There was a great deal of catching-up to do. "It was a vibrant, uncomfortable, untidy duration," Saint-Jude says.
Stanford's Mapping the Republic of Letters project shows that 40 percent of Voltaire's letters were sent out to correspondents fairly nearby. And what was everybody saying?
Very little, says Dan Edelstein, partner teacher of French and the primary investigator for the project. "It was the equivalent of a telephone call, welcoming someone to tea or saying, ‘OMG, did you know about the Fight it out?'"
Plainly, something had changed: Industrial postal solutions were increasing. However their models had existed down through the centuries, they had mainly offered federal government authorities, and later on (via the Medicis, for instance) merchant and financial houses. All of a sudden they were bring private communication.
More individuals were writing, and more individuals could react quickly, not just with family and friends, but throughout far-flung ranges with individuals they had never ever satisfied, and never ever would certainly. Instead such as some of our Twitter and google friends.
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It was an age of "hyper-writing," also addicting writing, Saint-Jude says. The aristocratic Madame de Sévigné composed 1,120 letters to her married child in Brittany, beginning in the late 1670s, until her fatality in 1696, maintaining her updated with the goings-on in Paris. Although she is remembered today for her witty epistles, she never ever intended them to be conserved, not to mention released.
For a time, the roads of Paris were littered with little little bits of papers—les billets—filled with a couple of words of scabrous and politically abusive verse that were tossed to the general public. Seem like Twitter?
Those little little bits of could cause big trouble—Voltaire landed in prison for his verse. But those brief, confidential postings bypassed the federal government censor and were a way of arranging uprisings, similar to this year's Arab Springtime. Egyptian social media networks were critical to coordinating demonstrators and drawing large groups this year.
Social media networks are key to nearly all revolutions, Edelstein says. "The Egyptian young people coordinators may have excelled at mobilizing individuals at a moment's notice, but remarkably it is another type of social media network that appears to be benefiting from the post-revolutionary situation—the Muslim Brotherhood. "This network may be much less nimble, but it has produced much longer and better sustained bonds in between participants in time."
