- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- This is Enlightenment
- Enlightening Mediation
- Where were the Media before the Media?
- Mediation and the Division of Labor
- Transmitting Liberty
- Modes and Codes
- Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Mediated Enlightenment
- Romanticism, Enlightenment and Mediation
- The Present of Enlightenment
- The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
- Mediating Media Past and Present
- Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
- Mediating Le Philosophe
- Novel Knowledge
- The Piratical Enlightenment
- Financing Enlightenment, Part One
- Financing Enlightenment, Part Two
- “The Horrifying Ties, From Which the Public Order Originates”
- The Preacher's Footing
- Mediation as Primal Word
- References
- Contributors
- Index
Mediating Media Past and Present
Mediating Media Past and Present
Toward a Genealogy of “Print Culture” and “Oral Tradition”
- Chapter:
- (p.229) Mediating Media Past and Present
- Source:
- This Is Enlightenment
- Author(s):
Paula Mcdowell
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter develops a historical analogy around the perception called “media shift.” Just as twentieth-century studies of oral (as opposed to scribal and print) culture took off in the wake of new twentieth-century oral technologies like telephony, the phonograph, and the radio, so too did the eighteenth-century conceptualization of oral tradition emerge in a complex dialectical relationship with an emerging sense of the sometimes reviled and sometimes improving effects of the steady proliferation of print. The chapter documents the eighteenth century's first draft of the comparative media analysis later conducted in the twentieth century.
Keywords: media shift, oral culture, oral technologies, print, media analysis
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- This is Enlightenment
- Enlightening Mediation
- Where were the Media before the Media?
- Mediation and the Division of Labor
- Transmitting Liberty
- Modes and Codes
- Mediating Information, 1450–1800
- Mediated Enlightenment
- Romanticism, Enlightenment and Mediation
- The Present of Enlightenment
- The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
- Mediating Media Past and Present
- Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760–1830
- Mediating Le Philosophe
- Novel Knowledge
- The Piratical Enlightenment
- Financing Enlightenment, Part One
- Financing Enlightenment, Part Two
- “The Horrifying Ties, From Which the Public Order Originates”
- The Preacher's Footing
- Mediation as Primal Word
- References
- Contributors
- Index
