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Sharing news has always been a vital element of human interaction. While for thousands of years, news transmission had exclusively relied on interpersonal communication, technological advances have opened up an array of mass media, spanning an impressive development from the invention of the printing press in the 15th century to Web 2.0 in the 21st century. This class investigates the impact of media shifts on the material and linguistic shape of news discourse through the centuries. |