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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Frances, 1952- author.

Series:

Directions in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--History.

Printing.

Printing--Social aspects--History.

Graphic design (Typography)--History.

Graphic design (Typography).

Communication and technology.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise of print under the onslaught of new media is often also correlated with the demise of modernity. This book charts the elements involved in such claims-print, culture, technology, history-through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this s

Contents:

Introduction

Marked surfaces

Steam intellects

Lithography and "improper" printing

Grey scale : half tone printing and the age of photomechanical reproduction

Found objects : copyshop culture

Conclusion : post-print culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1136502378

9780203144206

0203144201

1283871955

1136502386

OCLC:

823725659