The Origins of the Modern Public from CBC Radio's Ideas (gpodder.net) - 0 views
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John Fenn on 13 Oct 10Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the eighteenth century it became meaningful to talk about public opinion as something formed outside the state. Today anyone with a Twitter account can make a public. In this series Ideas producer David Cayley examines how publics were formed in Europe between 1500 and 1700, and how these first publics grew into the concept of the public that we hold today.