MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News Archive
I don't think I entirely buy the idea that we're entering an era that is truly a return to oral traditions, in that I see written text as being a key feature of digital communication. More of a synthesis of print and pre-print modes. That said, I think that the Gutenberg Parenthesis idea a useful framework for thinking about the long history of human knowledge production and the place of "new" media in it.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
- Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
- The concept of a "Gutenberg Parenthesis" -- formulated by Prof. L. O. Sauerberg of the University of Southern Denmark -- offers a means of identifying and understanding the period, varying between societies and subcultures, during which the mediation of texts through time and across space was dominated by powerful permutations of letters, print, pages and books. Our current transitional experience toward a post-print media world dominated by digital technology and the internet can be usefully juxtaposed with that of the period -- Shakespeare's -- when England was making the transition into the parenthesis from a world of scribal transmission and oral performance
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