Well the course itself is called, “News Media & the Internet Society” and in accordance with the title we had focused on the social origins of the newspaper in August. We learnt about major historical conditions that were crucial to the newspapers and these included the inventions of technologies and materials that assisted in writing news stories themselves as well as print them on paper. Generating mass literacy and incorporating various social institutions and politics in the news content created appeal to a larger demographic of readers. Paper making in England began in the mid- 1700’s with newspapers being distributed mainly at post offices.
Capitalism, Nation State as well as the public sphere all served to be those "socio-political" institutions that made the newspaper useful and marketable. The newspaper then by definition was, "a commodity that doubled as a medium to market other commodities and convey news and information".
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