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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Jeff Jarvis
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“The internet’s emancipation of the individual enables under represented communities to speak, organize, and act, enabling movements — reformations, even revolutions in the name of racial, gender, economic, legal, and environmental equity and justice. The existing, white power structure — in the person of the far right — counterattacks, burning the fields so as not to share their harvest with those who follow. They undermine the institutions of journalism, science, education, free and fair elections, democracy itself, and civility.

Thus when conservatives attack institutions, liberals find themselves in the position of having to defend those institutions. The conservatives are now the insurrectionists, the liberals are now conservative. The world has turned upside down and inside out. The old labels are ever more meaningless.”
Jeff Jarvis, The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet