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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Gutenberg parenthesis: Digital media, Web 2.0, and Pre-Gutenberg knowledge-making
At the 2007 MIT Media in Transition conference, Dr. Thomas Pettitt of the University of Southern Denmark spoke about participatory cultures (ie. Web 2.0) and how they signal the closing of what he calls "the Gutenberg parenthesis".
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Web 2.0, Secondary Orality, and the Gutenberg Parenthesis
During the Gutenberg period, just ending, humanity valued printed works as the foundation of knowledge, and tended to believe knowledge is "owned" by an individual. We are just beginning to understand once again, with the Internet, that knowledge is communal.
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