"The public world is changing faster than we can invent terms for describing it."
Technological change has always had profound social consequences, but few inventions in history have caused more political and cultural change than movable type printing.
Before Gutenberg, "truth" and "history" were largely properties of the Christian Church (and there was only one Christian Church, then)
.Movable type printing took away control over "the truth" from the Church and placed it in the hands of a secular elite. Now the Internet is taking away that secular elite's control over "the truth" and giving it to the broad populus.That's the connection.
Sven den Beste in einem Kommentar zum beeindruckenden Beitrag von Jay Rosen: Too Much Reality: Is There Such a Thing?.
Before Gutenberg, "truth" and "history" were largely properties of the Christian Church (and there was only one Christian Church, then)
.Movable type printing took away control over "the truth" from the Church and placed it in the hands of a secular elite. Now the Internet is taking away that secular elite's control over "the truth" and giving it to the broad populus.That's the connection.
Sven den Beste in einem Kommentar zum beeindruckenden Beitrag von Jay Rosen: Too Much Reality: Is There Such a Thing?.
Cyberwriter - 27. Okt, 13:55 - Blogging
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