Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… Image Front page of the first issue of The Daily Courant, 11 March 1702. Résumé Journals and books played a relevant role in the construction of modern public opinion and the diffusion of new forms of sociability … the relationship of political opposition to the ‘sense of people’ fostered by urgent popular needs. 5 5 . On the role played by women in the construction of modern public opinion see, for instance, Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz, Brilliant … (1994): ‘The advent of modern newspapers in the later eighteenth century sharpened, if anything, the impulse to talk; displayed on racks in the room, the newspapers offered topics for discussion – the written word seeming no more certain than …
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