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Social Media and the Victorian Age: Personal Reflections Gained from the Archivization Project
- Newman Studies Journal
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 2015
- pp. 101-106
- 10.1353/nsj.2015.0010
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay is a reflection of the time I have spent working with Cardinal Newman’s archive at the Birmingham Oratory. I have had a chance to stop and carefully read his letters and diaries and to see Newman as a communicator extraordinaire! I suspect that the Cardinal would have had great command of today’s social media and communications technology. His laity could have been a wider and larger audience on a virtual level. Might this be an opportunity for a sociological comparison of the great writers and speakers of an earlier time with those of us in today’s media-rich world? With whom else might Newman have interacted? We may never know with certainty, but it would be fun to imagine.