Elizabeth Eisenstein- The Unacknowledged Revolution
Answer all questions. For questions 1 and 2 please refer to the Eisenstein reading. Please keep your answers to the point. Please number all pages and either staple or pin them together.
1. “Combinatory intellectual activity inspires many creative acts”. What were some forms of combinatory activity, both social and intellectual, that derived from the invention of the printing press? Explain their impact on individuals and society in a brief essay (one page).
2. What were some of the effects of standardization? Identify both direct and ‘subliminal’ effects of standardization. In your answer please also describe how standardization impacted knowledge and the way scholars worked, how it changed ideas of place, region and self and made possible new forms of ‘brainwork’. Please answer in one and a half pages.
3. In a paragraph identify one indirect and unintended effect of the internet either on individuals or on society.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth
1983, “An Unacknowledged Revolution” Chapter 1 in The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-11. (filed attachment)
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