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SUMMARY:The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press? This question has been posed with increasing force in recent years by anthropologists\, folklorists\, historians and literary scholars\, among them Thomas Pettitt\, who has contributed significantly to elaborating and communicating the version of this question named in the title of today’s forum. \nThe concept of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis” — formulated by Prof. L. O. Sauerberg of the University of Southern Denmark — offers a means of identifying and understanding the period\, varying between societies and subcultures\, during which the mediation of texts through time and across space was dominated by powerful permutations of letters\, print\, pages and books. Our current transitional experience toward a post-print media world dominated by digital technology and the internet can be usefully juxtaposed with that of the period — Shakespeare’s — when England was making the transition into the parenthesis from a world of scribal transmission and oral performance. \nMIT professors Peter Donaldson and James Paradis will join Pettitt in a discussion of the value of historical perspectives on our technologizing human present.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gutenberg-parenthesis-oral-tradition-digital-technologies/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Jenkins' Farewell
DESCRIPTION:Henry Jenkins\nHenry Jenkins’ 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC\, Jenkins returns to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture\, his work as the founding director of Comparative Media Studies\, and his experiences as a teacher and housemaster at MIT. \nModerated by William Uricchio.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jenkins-farewell/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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