Who has the power to share their ideas with the world or their local communities? Where does that power come from? Who controls what gets published? How have the answers to these questions changed over time? These are the big questions guiding scholars of book history, a field that can help us understand and shape our own relationship with the public.
How I Came to Study Book History…
A Glance into Book History
Parchment
Rag Paper
15th-century: Gutenberg Printing Press
18th-century Printing and Bookbinding
19th-century Printing and Bookbinding
20th-century Printing and Bookbinding
A Few Publication Platforms
WordPress
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Wikipedia
TAPAS
Markup Languages: Moving Beyond Existing Platforms
To learn more about markup languages you might experiment with, please visit the “Technologies of Text” post from Fall 2019.
