Graphosphere
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Graphosphere is a noun meaning (history) The age of print (following the logosphere, or age of writing, and preceding the videosphere).
Meaning
(history) The age of print (following the logosphere, or age of writing, and preceding the videosphere).
More Meanings
- The "totality of graphic devices used to record, store, display, and disseminate messages and information, and the social and cultural spaces in which they figure."
Example Sentences
2007, Régis Debray, "Socialism: A life-cycle," New Left Review, 46, July-August 2007. A second period, the graphosphere, runs from 1448 to around 1968: from the Gutenberg Revolution to the rise of TV.
2005, Jacques Derrida (2005), cited in R. Burt, 2016, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, Springer. p. 24. What belongs to the graphosphere always implies some kind of surface, and even the materiality of some kind of backing or support; but not all graphemes are necessarily imprinted on paper, or the skin, photographic film, or a piece of parchment.
Word Forms
- graphospheres
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include graphist, graphics, graphic, geekosphere, gopherspace, geomatics.
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