new blog post: newspapers
https://blog.dante.cool/newspapers/
on social media and its material, or lack thereof
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@darius oooo that sounds like my shit, i'll have to check that out
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@dante
> The "potential field of newspapers" was important, since it was broadly "the nation" or the people who could read it.
Yes! IIRC, Benedict Anderson argues in Imagined Communities that the very concept of nation itself came into existence due in part to the nation-building properties of newspapers and other such print media.