Print in the 1800s
| BOOKS | NEWSPAPERS | MAGAZINES |
| Role: Educational (1) | Role: Informational | Role: Educational, Informational |
| early 1800s - low literacy | printing press - handbills | small circulations |
| expensive | not journalists (some newspapers) | journals - scholarly, literary |
| who read? | who read? | who read? |
| upper class white males | upper class white males | upper class white males |
| what did they read? | what did they read? | what did they read? |
| theology, politics, science, philosophy | politics, business, religion | science, theology, philosophy, literature |
| INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SPREADS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 1800s | ||
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| MASS MARKETS FOR PRINT DEVELOP | ||
| CONTENT | CONTENT | CONTENT |
| romance novels | Penny Press - sensationalism | Saturday Evening Post |
| westerns | comics | LIFE (photography) |
| A MAJOR SHIFT OCCURS - FROM LITERARY QUALITY TO SALABILITY (8) | ||
| Role: Educational/Entertainment | Role: Informational/Entertainment | Role: Informational/Entertainment |
How did print diffuse across the United States? (7) |
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| East to West | ||
| Urban to rural | ||
| Upper class to middle and lower class | ||