Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 320 Seiten)
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781501394867
,
9781501394843
,
9781501394850
Content:
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture - a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it. Tracking Western industrialized print to its origins, he explores its invention, spread, and evolution, as well as the bureaucracy and censorship that followed. He also reveals how print gave rise to the idea of the mass - mass media, mass market, mass culture, mass politics, and so on - that came to dominate the public sphere. What can we glean from the captivating, profound, and challenging history of our devotion to print? Could it be that we are returning to a time before mass media, to a society built on conversation, and that we are relearning how to hold that conversation with ourselves? Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over communication, authorship, and ownership, Jarvis' exploration of print on a grand scale is also a complex, compelling history of technology and power
Note:
Part I. THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS 1. The Parenthesis 2. Print's Presumptions 3. Trepidation Part II. INSIDE THE PARENTHESIS 4. What Came Before 5. How to Print 6. Gutenberg 7. After the Bible 8. Print Spreads 9. The Troubles 10. Creation with Print 11. The Birth of the Newspaper 12. Print Evolves: Until 1800 13. Aesthetics of Print 14. Steam and the Mechanization of Print 15. Electricity and the Industrialization of Media 16. The Meaning of It All Part III. LEAVING THE PARENTHESIS 17. Conversation vs. Content 18. Death to the Mass 19. Creativity and Control 20. Institutional Revolutions Afterword: And What of the Book? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index Colophon
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501394829
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501394836
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jarvis, Jeff, 1954 - The Gutenberg parenthesis New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 ISBN 9781501394829
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Buchdruck
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.5040/9781501394867
Author information:
Jarvis, Jeff 1954-
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