{"product_id":"9781501394829","title":"The Gutenberg Parenthesis : The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Jarvis, Prof Jeff (Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation, City University of New York, USA) \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterature: history \u0026amp; criticism\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 July 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Academic USA) in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 328 pages\u003cbr\u003e240 x 160 x 30 | 618g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present  and draws out lessons for the age to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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 todays debates over communication, authorship, and ownership, Jarvis exploration of print on a grand scale is also a complex, compelling history of technology and power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45795300147440,"sku":"9781501394829","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781501394829.jpg?v=1713531799","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9781501394829","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}