176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise of print under the onslaught of new media is often also correlated with the demise of modernity.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. 'Marked Surfaces' 3. Steam Intellects 4. Lithography and 'Improper' Printing 5. Grey Scale: Half Tone Printing and the Age of Photomechanical Reproduction 6. Found Objects: Copyshop Culture 7. Conclusion: Post-Print Culture? Bibliography
Biography
Frances Robertson
'With the dramatic increase in the potential to process information resulting from advances in digital technologies in recent decades, it is commonplace to hear dire predictions about informational culture. In Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook, Frances Robertson tackles what the rise of the e-book and digital technologies means for how we interact with text and images, with particular reference to print culture... Through a careful examination of the history of technological innovations and the shifting boundaries of print culture, Robertson challenges claims about the supposed disappearance of the printed word in a digital age.' - Elizabeth Ross, University of Ottawa, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
