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Where does press collide?

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Book history

The technology of mechanical reproduction of text

In the history of communication the printing press names the movable-type technology that enabled the rapid, standardized duplication of texts, and by extension "the press" names print media as an institution. Eisenstein argued the press was an agent of change whose features (fixity, wide dissemination, and standardization) reshaped scholarship, religion, and science in early modern Europe. The referent here is a reproduction technology and its social consequences, sharing only the word with a grape press or a psychological force.[1]

Unit
The movable-type technology for standardized mass reproduction of text
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied through output of editions, dissemination, and standardization of texts over time

Personality psychology

Environmental forces that act on a person

In Henry Murray's personology, a press is the directional power an object or situation in the environment has over a person (what it can do to or for the individual), paired with the person's inner needs to explain behaviour. Murray distinguished alpha press (the environment as it objectively is) from beta press (the environment as the person perceives it). The referent is a construct about situational forces on motivation, assessed through thematic and projective methods, and is wholly distinct from a grape press or a printing press.[2]

Unit
The force or demand an environmental situation exerts on an individual
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from thematic apperception and narrative coding of need–press interactions

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References

  1. Eisenstein, E. L. (2005). The printing revolution in early modern Europe (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521607742
  2. Murray, H. A. (2008). Explorations in personality (70th anniversary ed.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1938) ISBN 9780195305067

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