During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther became widely known as one of the most powerful and forceful leaders in the 16th century. Within the PBS film, “Martin Luther: The Reluctant Revolutionary,” the plot captures the journey of a man that truly changed the course of history. Throughout this time, the Catholic Church was recognized as […]
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Martin Luther and the power of the printing press
Posted by: Tatyana White-Jenkins | February 9, 2016 | No Comment |Martin Luther was a prominent and significant figure of the Protestant Reformation. After feeling a sense of cynicism and hypocrisy within the church he held dear, he began questioning the teachings of the church and later fought to change them. While historic documentaries usually prove to bore me, after watching the documentary on Luther I […]
The Flugschriften and the emergence of a shorter publication
Posted by: evansp12 | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |Flugschriften first appeared in the 16th century. These were published news in the form of short pamphlets. Flugschriften, which means “pamphlets” in German, came about at the time of the reformation. Many of them focused their writing around the propoganda of the Reformation movement, the Thirty Years War, the French Revolution and the Peasant’s War. […]
Redefining the publishing market in the 16th century
Posted by: kponcian | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |“What emerges from the 16th century is a reading public ready to invest in printed material from broadsheets to pamphlets to books that went beyond their trade or devotional lives.” Over the 16th century, the publishing market was refined: news pamphlets recorded local news in addition to foreign sensationalized news, sensations were the stock […]
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Tags: 16th century, broader market, Europe, Kponcian, Literacy., local news, News, press, printing press, Publishing, Renaissance, thirst for news
When the word “viral” is used today, we tend to think of a popular Youtube video before we think about the kind of infectious contagion that such videos derived this title from. Most of the time, viral videos are exercises in the extreme, whether it’s an extremely cute dog or an extremely annoying music video, […]
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Tags: 95 theses, Johann Gutenburg, Martin Luther, mattmason, printing press, technology, Velocity
Tags: 95 theses, Johann Gutenburg, Martin Luther, mattmason, printing press, technology, Velocity
Few people could be considered visionaries of their time. Michael Stern Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, could be seen as one of these rare visionaries. In 1971, it was far fetched to imagine the progression of technology to its current levels. Yet, Michael Hart was able to see the continuous need for books and […]
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Tags: bpassmor, Brittany Passmore, ebooks, ereaders, Johann Gutenburg, michael hart, printing press, technology
Tags: bpassmor, Brittany Passmore, ebooks, ereaders, Johann Gutenburg, michael hart, printing press, technology
The Chinese inventions of paper and the printing press are often overlooked by the Western World. However, China was the first country to improve on the paper making process and created the first moveable type printing press, without which journalism would not have evolved to where it is today. Stephens cites A.D. 105 as the […]
Technology: helping the spread of news (part 2)
Posted by: michaelmorse | October 22, 2009 | No Comment |In our last blog entry, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press and steam engine (see below) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large. In this entry, we will continue to discuss how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/apps/eLearning/medium_image.jsp?imageid=1311 Like the printing press and the steam […]
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Tags: information, Michael Morse, News, printing press, radio, steam engine, technology, telegraph
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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 1)
Posted by: michaelmorse | October 1, 2009 | No Comment |Advancements in technology over the years have helped in the spread of news. From Pi Sheng (see picture below) being the first person to use moveable type in 1041 C.E. in China (some 400 years before Johann Gutenburg introduced the printing press to Europe in 1450 C.E.) to the use of blogging by reporters, atheletes, entertainers, and students today (2000’s), technology has opened the […]
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Tags: China, Michael Morse, printing press, steam engine, steam press, technology
Tags: China, Michael Morse, printing press, steam engine, steam press, technology
Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg gets the majority of the credit for inventing the printing press. The German goldsmith built the first printing press in 1440 . It should also be noted, however, that the Chinese played a vital role in the development of this ground-breaking machine. Almost 300 years before Gutenberg […]