[ecrea] CFP: Printernet - Comparing two communications revolutions

> PRINTERNET
> COMPARING TWO COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTIONS: PRINTING AND THE INTERNET
> Call for papers for an international colloquium 
> at Tel Aviv University, on June 6, 2010.
>
> Profs. Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Ami Ayalon 
> (School of History, TAU), Prof. Jerome Bourdon 
> and Dr. Eli Dresner (Communication, TAU).
>
> Printing and the Internet are two technologies 
> that share an essential feature: their 
> introduction stirred a profound revolution in 
> human communication, with far-reaching 
> ramifications in every sphere of social and 
> individual life. Both the invention of printing 
> and the advent of the Internet allowed for 
> easier access to knowledge, even to people who 
> had hitherto depended on others for obtaining 
> it. In this respect, the impact of both 
> technologies was overwhelming, leaving no domain 
> of human life unaffected: political, social, and 
> cultural relations, religion, language, economy 
> ? were all transformed. The very categories by 
> which we conceptualize society and the very 
> essence of each notion were altered. Both 
> developments also had a global effect, despite 
> disparities in the process of their reception 
> and assimilation by different cultures. Finally, 
> in both cases contemporaries were aware of a 
> major change actually occurring, not just about 
> to occur (as has been the case with most other technological innovations).
>
> Printing and its implications in different times 
> and places have been studied extensively by 
> scholars; but most studies of the effects of the 
> Internet have been so far based only on rather 
> superficial analogies to the former invention.
>
> We invite papers from scholars willing to 
> explore the comparison and not simply to restate 
> the obvious analogies. Comparisons specific in 
> time and place ? e.g. between blogs and early 
> readers? participation in newspaper writing ? as 
> well as more general, theoretical assessments of 
> both "revolutions" in communication will be 
> considered. We will also consider papers 
> offering comparisons with other major changes in 
> communication such as the advent of writing.
>
> The colloquium will take place on Sunday, June 
> 06, 2010, at Tel Aviv University. Scholars 
> wishing to participate are invited to send a 500 
> words abstract to Prof. Jerome Bourdon, 
> <mailto:(jeromeb /at/ post.tau.ac.il)>(jeromeb /at/ post.tau.ac.il), before January 30, 2010.

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