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Print culture : from steam press to ebook / Frances Robertson.

By: Robertson, Frances, 1952- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Directions in cultural historyPublisher: London : Routledge, 2013Description: vii, 164 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415574167 (hbk.) :; 9780415574174 (pbk.) :; 9780203144206 (ebook) :Subject(s): Printing -- History | Printing -- Social aspects -- History | Graphic design (Typography) -- History | Communication and technology | Digital media | Technology | TechnologyDDC classification: 686.2'09 Summary: With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. This book charts the elements involved in such claims through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan's notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. This book charts the elements involved in such claims through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan's notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning.

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