Jason Steinhauer, "History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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The Crowd Soars Past
i want to find case studies and examples throughout the that would illustrate some of these perhaps more abstract concepts that i write about. And so a one thing that i thought was sort of interesting and amusing was this wicipaedia entry for what was called snow zila, which was a term used to describe a a big snowstorm that happened on the eastern coast of the united states in january 20 16. So in other words, people were writing a history of an event before the event had even occurred. It's possible that the information that is there was written by people even before the event itself happened. How reliable can it be if it was written before something even occurred? Again, i
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