MC 4095 Lecture : American Media History Full Year Notes
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Movable type: much dispute over who invented it. A social dynamic: communities of place (vertical: newspapers) vs. communities of. Class (horizontal: communities of mass (vertical: radio, tv) vs. communities of space. Hulu, etc: but none of these things are extinct yet, some are just not as dominant as they used to be. Inventing the printing press: johann gutenberg invented the printing press, 1450 printing first book the gutenberg bible, before this, books were handwritten and very expensive, after, the common man could afford books, it changed the world. 1750: ink was one of the few things that could be made here and did not have to be imported, printer"s shops started to become pubs where people shared knowledge. Ben"s name on it: he broke away and published his own paper the penn. Key policies and events: 1765: stamp act, colonies and britain both struggling economically because of the seven years war, so the british government brought about taxes to the.
