Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bi Sheng, Movable Type, Imperial Courts

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: kjosen

Document Summary

Eisenstein, innis, mcluhan etc. ) argue that it was of decisive importance to both the. 1440 in mainz: but the components of the press had been invented much earlier. Arabs: had to buy from chinese otherwise, took a very long time to transport it, the first paper industry in the north america was built in philadelphia in 1690. Why no printing press in asia: moveable type was also widely used in korea from the 11th century onwards and the. Dark ages-followed rome, plague, warfare because rome could not guarantee stability, setback i(cid:374) lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a lot of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:449)as si(cid:373)pl(cid:455) lost at the time, no records of that time. Two ways to copy texts: block printing with wood stamps or by hand: took a long time for both processes. Block printing: carving text and images into wood, which is then covered with ink and stamped/pressed onto a medium (paper, textile).