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

Abstract

"As we begin to leave the Gutenberg age, and into a era dominated by the Internet, we have much to learn from how we transitioned into the age of print and how it changed how we think and communicate"-- Provided by publisher.

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?