Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G : MIT 2000 Practise Questions
24 Feb 2014
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The printing press was invented by the german johannes gutenberg in the. The printing press provided cheap, quick, accurate communications across the once difficult boundaries of space and time. The printing press allowed for old ideas to be contrasted and new ideas developed. The church used to have ultimate monopoly over information and enforced it ruthlessly, after the printing press they lost that power. It created a new instrument for the master of public opinion upon the masses. When printing first started, the bourgeois had access to it while the working class could not afford it. People could only subscribe to this community if they had a high income, generally if they were elite bourgeois working class people. Also the printing press related to capitalism because it created a whole new job market. The printing economy regrouped people with older and newer skills. Older skills that included paper making, ink manufacturer, leather working, book binding and book marketing.
