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The Gutenberg parenthesis ( English Gutenberg Parenthesis ) is in the media theory of the historical period in which the printing press as a key medium is a society.

The term was coined by the Danish literary scholar Lars Ole Sauerberg (* 1950) to emphasize the static nature of information within the “bracket”. Before the Gutenberg bracket, collective learning was largely achieved through oral tradition , and after that, electronic channels (radio, television, internet ...) primarily serve as communication channels.

The appearance of the Gutenberg bracket varies over time between cultures and is assigned to European history in the roughly 500 years between the invention of the printing press and the emergence of digital mass media at the beginning of the 21st century.

See also

• Alphabetic monopoly
• Gutenberg galaxy
• Global village

literature

• Robert F. Kenny: Beyond the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Exploring New Paradigms in Media and Learning , The National Association for Media Literacy Education's Journal of Media Literacy Education 3: 1 (2011) 32-46

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Pettitt, Before the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Elizabethan-American Compatibilties: https://www.academia.edu/2946207/Before_the_Gutenberg_Parenthesis_Elizabethan-American_Compatibilities
2. ↑ Greg Peverill-Conti and Brad Seawell, The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies: https://commforum.mit.edu/the-gutenberg-parenthesis-oral-tradition-and-digital-technologies-29e1a4fde271