Early English periodicals and early modern social media

• Verfasst von: Ezell, Margaret J. M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Early English periodicals and early modern social media
• Verf.angabe: Margaret J.M. Ezell
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 85 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79174-8
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications Industries
• Sach-SW: Englisch
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
• Sach-SW: LIT024000
• Sach-SW: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Sach-SW: Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800
• Sach-SW: Press & journalism
• Sach-SW: Presse und Journalismus
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: England
• Zeit-SW: Erste Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert (ca. 1700 bis ca. 1750)
• Zeit-SW: Zweite Hälfte 17. Jahrhundert (ca. 1650 bis ca. 1699)
• K10plus-PPN: 1894678400

Abstract

Using the lens of early modern social authorship and contemporary social media, this Element explores a new print genre popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. Traditionally, literary history has focused on only one aspect, the periodical essay. This Element returns the periodical to its original, complex literary ecosystem as an ephemeral text competing for an emerging audience, growing out of a social authorship culture. It argues that the relationship between authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture, similar to what modern readers encounter in the early phases of the transition from print to digital, as seen in social media. Like our current evolving digital environment, the periodical also experienced a shift from its original practices stressing sociability to a more commercially driven media ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core