Aimed at a wide popular audience, they disseminated gossip, trivia, unofficial news accounts from nongovernmental sources, news of recent explorations, commercial advertisements, and the more sensational news items of the day reports of lurid crimes, supposed miracles, witchcraft, and the like.
Analyzing how these tales represent the liminal, probationary phase in the lives of fledgling literati as they adjust to the urban milieu, Feng shows that Chang'an's spaces served as arenas for disseminating information, gossip, and opinions, as well as for forging the identities of Chang'an's newest denizens.
I think of how it applies resonantly to gossip, in particular the kind disseminated by the gossip industry.
And, the ease with which videos, photographs or audio can be posted and disseminated has turned gossip into a world that Walter Winchell would recognize and revel in. A. J. Daulerio, the editor of Deadspin, said he was not worried that his site, which is owned by Gawker Media, would be hurt by TMZ, a unit of Time Warner.
— and disseminate what we learn.
She said the police were sending him to different criminal gangs to disseminate false information and gossip in order to destabilize rival groups.
("Incoming!" is another way of saying, "It's Isac!") It is believed that Isac can disseminate a piece of gossip to ten reporters in fifteen minutes.
Gossip also disseminates valuable information about a network who's a free rider, who's a bully, and who's impossible to work with and provides a means for censuring those who don't adhere to the group's norms.
The clouds are disseminating.
And Google is disseminating it.
