The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet - Couverture rigide

Jarvis, Prof Jeff

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1501394827 ISBN 13 : 9781501394829

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

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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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeff Jarvis is the Emeritus Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, a visiting professor at Stony Brook University, and a fellow at Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, TV critic for TV Guide and People, Sunday editor of the New York Daily News, a media columnist for The Guardian, and president and creative director of Advance.net. He blogs at Buzzmachine.com and cohosts the podcasts AI Inside, Intelligent Machines, and Breaking the News. He is the author of six books, including The Gutenberg Parenthesis (2023) and Magazine (2023), both published by Bloomsbury.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501394827
• ISBN 13: 9781501394829
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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