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The Rise of Newspapers and the Penny Press
Johann Gutenberg, inventor of Europe’s first printing press in the 1450’s, unexpectedly created a demand for knowledge and news. Impressively, over 50 years after his invention, “an estimated 500,000 books were in circulation, printed on about 1,000 presses across … Continue reading
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Tagged Gutenberg, mass media, mass printing, newspaper, penny press, printed press
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Penny Papers: innovation & social change
Here is a link to the wiki I created on the penny papers. My focus is on the reciprocity of technology and social change. Emphasis is on Benjamin Day’s The Sun which is regarded as the first penny paper of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, Benjamin Day, Christensen, disruptive technology, Innis, literacy, media, newspaper, penny papers, printing press, readership, technology
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Our Incessant Appetite
Dictionary.com defines text as “the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper,etc., as … the original words of an author or speaker, [and] as … the actual wording of anything written or printed” (text, n.d.). In searching for … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, manuscript, newspaper, printed, speaker, text, written
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