Book in a Historical and Social Context
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 15
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 6
Lecturer(s): izr. prof. dr. Vogrinčič Čepič Ana, prof. dr. Kovač Mihael
• Definition of the book.
• Definition(s) of authorship and author's work.
• Definition of book publishing and book trade.
• Methods of textual transmission in Europe before the invention of movable type printing. Invention of printing in Asia.
• The social and cultural context of Gutenberg's invention and the break between manuscript culture and print culture.
• The emergence of the book communication circuit.
• The emergence of copyright as a regulator of the book trade and other information industries.
• Printing and the emergence of imagined communities. The birth of the information industry. The development of book markets in Europe and the USA.
• The emergence and development of digital media.
Anderson, B. 2007. Zamišljene skupnosti. Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis. COBISS.SI-ID - 238377472
Briggs, A. and Burke P. 2002. Socialna zgodovina medijev. Ljubljana: Sophia. COBISS.SI-ID - 221968384
Kovač M. in Gregorin. R(2016) Ime česa je konec knjige. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba. COBISS.SI-ID - 286899968
KOVAČ, Miha, PHILLIPS, Angus, WEEL, Adriaan van der, WISCHENBART, Rüdiger. 2019.What is a book?.Publishing research quarterly, 35(3), 313-326. COBISS.SI-ID - 70122338
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