In the 21st century, the CNN effect has been replaced by the Twitter effect.

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

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

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.