Hot Type
- Nyhet
The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
Av Jeff Jarvis, USA) Jarvis, Prof Jeff (Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation, City University of New York
349 kr
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Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires. The technology helped transform Mark Twain into a premier literary celebrity, but also cost him his fortune – as well as his sense of humor and optimism. The Linotype’s era was a bridge between Twain’s Gilded Age with its tycoons of steam, steel, and wire and today’s Gilded Age with its barons of bits and AI. This is a tale populated with wondrous characters: tragic inventors, malign media moguls, hand-typesetters called the Swifts who turned their craft into a spectator sport, and authors and journalists who chronicled the turmoil of their time, their every word molded into metal type by what some viewed as a thinking machine. The Linotype would die at the hands of the computer, taking down with it printers’ unions and many a newspaper. Its history provides an opportunity to examine the impact of technology on culture just as new technologies – the internet and artificial intelligence – manufacture their endless streams of words today.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2026-06-11
- Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
- Vikt454 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor336
- FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
- ISBN9798765123959