[…] a common total would be about thirty moths, equally divided between Early Greys and Engraileds.

The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.

In the 21st century, the CNN effect has been replaced by the Twitter effect.

When the internet emerged in the 1990s, another layer of always-on-ness was introduced to news and political culture, augmented by the qualitatively new capacities for user–producer interactivity and public participation which the digisphere provided.