The Gutenberg Parenthesis: A Talk by Univ. of Southern Denmark Prof. Tom Pettitt

Prof. Tom Pettitt (http://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8080/portal/da/person/pettitt) is a member of the research group that came up with the idea of the “Gutenberg Parenthesis.” It's the notion that our digital/internet revolution heralds not only the end of the print and book era, but also the restoration, at a higher level of technology, of significant characteristics of pre-print communication usually associated with the Middle Ages and folklore. Prof. Pettitt will juxtapose Media Studies and Mediaeval Studies, and discuss possible lessons of the pre-print past for the post-print future of news media and journalism.

Read this Nieman Lab piece (http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/the-gutenberg-parenthesis-thomas-pettitt-on-parallels-between-the-pre-print-era-and-our-own-internet-age/) for more background on the "Gutenberg Parenthesis."

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