Scandal! An 18th century drama of micro-blogging and super injunctions
Beckett, C.
(2011).
Scandal! An 18th century drama of micro-blogging and super injunctions.
Is there nothing that can stop the spread of scandal in the digital age? Whether false or true, gossip has always been a fact of human social life in all its destructive and revelatory forms. The supposed hey-dey of Habermas’ public sphere was in the coffee shops of Georgian London. But if we believe the great dramatist of that age, they were talking about sex more than politics, trade and culture.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2011 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Media and Communications |
| Date Deposited | 17 May 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77443 |