Dissemination Of News And Information
Scope Note
This category is used to index information on informal, mostly verbal transmission (e.g. rumor, grapevine); criers and heralds; bulletins and newsletters; etc. It also includes digital forms of informal communication such as group chats, social media, and forums.
History Note
This scope note was revised in 2026. Last sentence was added and some vocabulary revisions to original.
- Broader Term
- 200 Communication
- Related Terms
- 2010 Internet Communications
- 447 Advertising
- 521 Conversation
- Use Fors
- Announcements (informal verbal transmissions)
- Announcers
- Apps, Social Media
- Blog, Personal
- Bulletins
- Couriers (dissemination of news and information)
- Criers (dissemination of news and information)
- Eavesdropping (informal communication)
- Flyers (news dissemination)
- Group Chat (internet based)
- Handbills
- Heralds (dissemination of news and information)
- Information dissemination (non-Internet)
- Messages and messengers (informal systems)
- News dissemination
- Newsletters
- Pamphlets (news and information)
- Rumor
- Text Messages, group chat
- Verbal news and rumor
- Identifier
- 203
Export as:
- SKOS (XML) |
- JSON-LD |
- CSV