{"product_id":"the-gutenberg-parenthesis-the-age-of-print-and-its-lessons-for-the-age-of-the-internet-9781501394829","title":"The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gutenberg Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Jarvis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.39w x 1.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501394829","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42447026946185,"sku":"9781501394829","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_2836e0ea-ccd6-4051-8990-8eacee322c55.jpg?v=1716236292","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-gutenberg-parenthesis-the-age-of-print-and-its-lessons-for-the-age-of-the-internet-9781501394829","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}