Looks Like New: What was the earliest social media like?

Do social media networks have to be addictive, or polarizing, or advertising-funded?

This conversation explores lessons from the past that could help us make social media better today. Our guest is University of Virginia media studies professor Kevin Driscoll, author most recently of “The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media.” He brings us stories of an almost-lost era before the Internet became widespread, whose traces are still very much with us.

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