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2007

• Web 2.0: The Machine Is Us/ing Us (Final Version) (Video)

• Re: Web 2.0: The Machine Is Us/ing Us (Video)

Geoffrey Roper, "The Printing Press and Change in the Arab World," Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist and Eleanor F. Shevlin (Amherst and Boston: U Massachusetts P, 2007) 250-267.

"I wrote in 1988, 'printing has its own direct effects, as Innis, McLuhan, Febvre and Eisenstein have shown. These operate, as they have demonstrated, both on the cognitive plane, and on the socioeconomic plane. The systematic investigation of these factors might shift the historical perspective somewhat: westernization might then perhaps seem a less direct cause of some of the changes in Middle Eastern thought and society in the nineteenth century [Arabic Printing in Malta 1825-1845, Ph.D. thesis, U of Durham, 1988].' I stand by these words, and call upon my colleagues, in the spirit of Eisenstein, to devote more effort to that systematic investigation." (267)