Print created national uniformity and government centralism, 
but also individualism and opposition to government as such.

*     At this point of reduction of all language to one mode, 
we are not really disengaged from the original meaning of print 
in transforming the vernaculars into mass media of nationalist 
significance. It will repay us to dip more than a century behind 
Sprat in order to follow the contours of the original 
manifestation of print as a means of uniformity.

     Karl Deutsch writes in his Nationalism and Social  
Communication  (pp. 78­9):

     a nationality  is a people pressing to acquire a measure of 
     effective control over the behavior of its members. . . . 
     nationalities turn into nations when they acquire power to