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The Gutenberg parenthesis : the age of print and its lessons for the age of the internet /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarvis, Jeff, 1954- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Subjects:
Printing > History.
Imprimerie > Histoire.
Literary theory.
Media studies.
Printing & reprographic technology.
Printing
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Gutenberg Parenthesis
  • The Parenthesis
  • Print's Presumptions
  • Trepidation
  • Part II. Inside the Parenthesis
  • What Came Before
  • How to Print
  • Gutenberg
  • After the Bible
  • Print Spreads
  • The Troubles
  • Creation with Print
  • The Birth of the Newspaper
  • Print Evolves: Until 1800
  • Aesthetics of Print
  • Steam and the Mechanization of Print
  • Electricity and the Industrialization of Media
  • The Meaning of It All
  • Part III. Leaving the Parenthesis
  • Conversation vs. Content
  • Death to the Mass
  • Creativity and Control
  • Institutional Revolutions
  • Afterword: And What of the Book?