INFORMING AND SHAPING OPINION IN EUROPE AND YOUNG AMERICA IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

In the age of real-time information and the proliferation of fake news, the study of news writing and dissemination in the early modern period offers valuable insights. The transmission of information underwent significant transformations in the 17th and 18th centuries: in addition to oral and handwritten dissemination, increasingly diverse printed channels emerged.

This Young Researchers’ Conference aims to take stock of the new methods of information dissemination that characterized the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses primarily on France, the British Isles, and the emerging United States, but also considers other geographical areas in Europe in order to highlight the networks involved in the circulation of news.