Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today’s Internet

"If you think BuzzFeed invented the listicle, you haven’t spent enough time with 19th-century newspapers, because they’re everywhere." That's Ryan Cordell, a Northeastern University professor who researches virality in 19th-century newspapers, during a talk he gave recently at MIT.
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