Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… of popular public opinion is one of the most significant characteristics of the eighteenth century, especially in England. Writers and poets (such as Swift, Pope, Richardson) became the main public figures in the sharing of … printers and poets, whose social relevance intermingled with the communicative innovations of the time. Especially in England, France, Northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, the Enlightenment featured the rise of new forms of … opinion: ‘The monopoly position of the publishing trade had significant implications for the age of enlightenment in England'. 2 This is what Harold Innis pointed out in one of his conclusions in The Bias of Communication (1951), focused …
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