How many media can you see in a day

God knows there is more production than before. For example, in the next 24 hours, * * * will write more than 7 stories, The Huffington Post will publish 12 stories, Forbes and BuzzFeed will produce 3 to 4 stories, and 6 more will be published. Of course, this is just a small mouth in the fire hose. Plus YouTube, you watch 144, hours of new videos every day.

how do we filter this mass of news and information? Mainly through social media. Nowadays, people often collect photos and news on their favorite websites and post them online. So far, we have posted more than 3 billion messages on Pinterest, shared 4 billion amazing photos on Facebook and posted more than 3 billion times on Twitter.

cut, paste and organize: this feels like a new behavior, an extreme attempt to deal with information overload. But in fact, this is a respectable impulse. In fact, as early as the 19th century, we had a similar fierce media offensive, and we used a very similar technology to deal with it: scrapbooking. Clip the Chicago rhythm sweetheart. (Gushiniere/Chicago Defender/International Sweeters of Rhythm Collection/Archives Center/nmah, SI) Julie Garbo (the mother of actresses Eva, Zisa Zisa and Magda) * * news clips of the 195s scrapbook (Betty Man/Colby), including King George, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Margaret. (Records/Archives Center of Western Union Telegraph Company /NMAH, SI) Newspaper advertisement of Apollo Theater. (Frank Schiffman Apollo Theater Collection/Archives Center/National Museum of American History) Allen, an English professor at City University of New Jersey and the author of Writing With Scissors? Gruber? Ellen Gruber Garvey said:

"Scrapbooks are blogs of that period." . "It has all these similarities with what we are doing today."

We don't usually think that the 19th century was a period of exhaustion, but it had its own media explosion. In 1833, when a newspaper first appeared, the daily newspaper suddenly became a popular phenomenon. In just a few decades, big cities like new york hosted dozens of daily newspapers. At the same time, this crazy new technology called "photography" appeared, which produced a lot of strange new forms, such as visiting group, photo phone card, < P >, and we panicked. Just like the internet today, people complain that there is too much to read. In 1873, a woman said anxiously, "We have so many old newspapers that we can't afford to buy a house for them to live in." . To make matters worse, this new news and periodical flow seems to be a disturbing temporary news, which disappeared the day after it arrived. A columnist wrote in Harper's New Monthly: "This magazine has replaced this book in the reading process of a generation, and there is great anxiety about the extent to which people read these fleeting materials," Garvey added. Solution to overload? For thousands of Americans, this is a scrapbook. It allows them to use this temporary medium to find the best parts and give them permanence and attraction by pasting them into a book.

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This is a new modification of old habits. For centuries, enthusiastic readers have kept the book Montparus, in which they copied and reread famous sayings. But with scrapbooks, you won't copy things out. You really cut out the material itself and captured its beautiful typesetting and page design. Our modern habit of "cutting and pasting" was born.

For many people, the scrapbook has become an original * * *-a way to keep information that may be useful or interesting in the future. They are used in all walks of life. Frances A.Smith, a school teacher, wanted to marry a farmer and move to the west, so in order to prepare a lot of knowledge, around 187, she began to cut and paste everything that a farm wife might want, from treating children's squamous rash to details about cows and lightning rods. Ker, Mary Shultz, a housewife in the 192s, created a database about stains and how to remove them, by saving the actual pieces of stained cloth next to the recipe for cleaning specific gloves.

At the same time, news hounds recorded their troubles, one of which was death. A midwestern man pathologically collected a scrapbook of obituaries, including some articles with pleasant Gothic titles, such as "Hiding the victim in a ditch" and "Two weeks with the body: an elderly mother was alone with her daughter's body in the farmhouse."

The scrapbook author is also an aesthete. In this new world of daily publications, they were fascinated by the gorgeous graphic design displayed, and cut and saved color prints and advertisements. Susan Tucker, archivist and curator of Tulane University and co-editor of American Life scrapbook, said that in the middle and late 19th century, "it was the first time that ordinary people saw colored things". "These look too precious to throw away."

but are these clips good for you? Like today's new media, scrapbook lovers and authorities are also arguing about the cognitive effect of this new hobby. Does it make you too focused on trifles? Does it improve your memory or make it worse?

An enthusiast, E.W.Gurley, claims that scrapbooks can make readers concentrate more because they are always looking for something to save. He wrote: "We study for one purpose, to find something, and to keep it when we find it." . Many serious writers agree. Louisa may alcott, the author of Little Women, claimed that she told her novel a lot of newspaper clippings: "My habit of reading with scissors in my hand," she wrote, "is good for me in most of my literary works."