Media History: The Printing Press Revolution

The printing press might seem simple from today's vantage point, but it was a disruptive media technology that challenged the existing power structure and transformed Europe. From sparking the Protestant Reformation to helping spread the Age of Enlightenment, the printing press was the first mass media technology, and like media revolutions to come, would redistribute ideas and power and remake society in the process.

[gargamelpresident]

You're quite a teacher !!! Clear and captivating. Thank you !!!

[MrRaulZ]

Excellent explanation, and quite comprehensive too. Thank you.

[anjaknatz]

Very interesting! I thank you a lot!!!

[gargamelpresident]

Hey do you have the name of the great religious song that comes on when you speak about Luther 17:25 ?

[DK-cpen]

Unfortunately. One of these early books Malleus Maleficarum, Witches Hammer supported the Burning Times: 80-100, 000 women and men were tortured and murdered.

[ybor]

At 1:00 you ask the question how you can communicate with simple drawings? And then you pretend this isn't possible. In practice, however, it appears that this form of communication, known as logograpsch writing, does not have the problems of using separate letters that are put together on the basis of their sounds.
And in practice it appears that those sounds develop, with the result that in English we have words that sound the same but are written differently and words that are written the same but sound different. Letters that are there are not pronounced, while letters that are not there are pronounced. In addition, there is a written national language, but it is pronounced differently by everyone. In the logographic script there has been some abstraction and merging, but it is logical: the drawing for a house shows that it is a hiding place for something very valuable. The drawing that represents tea shows that it is a plant, which part is used and that something has happened to it. Why words sound like this or like that is not logical.

[paultrosclair]

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