[Air-L] the birth of the term social media

[Murray Turoff]

Google scholar comes up with 14 uses of the term "social media" before
1920 and this one look as fairly relevant to current usage.   It is
fairly general in terms of oral and written traditions where we have
just added the digital form of those communication forms.


[BOOK] The function of socialization in social evolution
google.com [HTML]EW Burgess - 1916 - books.google.com
... socialization. Word of mouth and oral tradition, the written
manuscript and the printed
book, the church and the school constitute the social media in which
the achievement
of one generation becomes the social heritage of the next. ...
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