The significance of Gutenberg's movable type printing in the history of human communication.

Answer: around 1450, the German artisan Johann Gutenberg created the metal movable type typesetting and printing technology, which improved the quality and efficiency of printing, enabled the rapid reproduction of information in large quantities, created the technical conditions for the birth of the newspaper industry, and marked the advent of the era of mass communication.

(1) Around 1450, after the baptism of the Renaissance movement, Johann Gutenberg reinvented metal type printing, which played a decisive role in the emergence and popularity of printed newsprint in Europe. This invention was very quickly popularized in Europe, where at the end of the 15th century some 30,000 titles and more than 20 million books were printed and distributed, and the types of printing were expanded from religious documents to include natural sciences, philosophy, literature, and textbooks, widely disseminating new information and knowledge that had long been monopolized. Before the advent of Gutenberg's printing press, on the other hand, most of the books in Europe were written in Latin, and 1 person could only copy 2 to 4 pages a day; the books were extremely valuable and few in number. In 50 years using this new method of printing 30,000 types of printed matter, **** more than 12 million copies of printed matter.

(2) The invention and application of Gutenberg's Western-style movable type printing had a landmark significance in the tools of human communication history. Because printing can reproduce information in large quantities and quickly so that it can be disseminated to a wide audience, it has profoundly affected the spiritual and cultural life of mankind. Originally monopolized by a few people's cultural knowledge spread, new ideas, new information with the arrival of the printing age into an unstoppable trend of the times, the modern news and communication industry in the print media in the development of the ripples.

With the spread of printing technology in Europe, the cycle of short, bulk earth printing has become possible, the cycle of shorter periodicals soon appeared. The world's first journal with a fixed title and regular publication is the biannual "Book Market Events" published in Frankfurt in 1588 by the German printer Aichinger. Thereafter, periodicals appeared in the Netherlands, England, and France in the early 17th century.