Ong, Walter J. The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. The Terry Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Ong discusses the third stage of verbalization and notes that the process is sequential: The past century has seen the world enter into a ne...
Continue reading ...Man communicates with his whole body, and yet the word is his primary medium. Communication, like knowledge itself, flowers in speech (1). Ong, Walter J. The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. The Terry Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. ...
Continue reading ...McLuhan, M. (1997). Media research: technology, art, communication: Routledge. In many preliterate cultures the binding power of oral tradition is so strong that the eye is subservient to the ear. … In our society, however, to be real, a thing must be visible, and preferably constant” (39). ...
Continue reading ...“To be cyberliterate means that we need to understand the relationship between our communication technologies and ourselves, our communities, and our cultures (16)." Gurak, L. J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the internet with awareness. New Haven Conn.; London: Yale University Press. Gurak ...
Continue reading ...Happy New Year, All! Following my October 24th post of a proposal to present at the ATTW conference, I recently got word that it was accepted. I am certainly going to accept the offer, and I'm thoroughly excited for the opportunity to put out to the academic community this concept (Simulating Syn...
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