It’s Still Orality to Me – or – But, We Still Teach Orally

• September 13, 2007
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• digital orality
• Posted by Time Barrow

In Chapter Two, “The Theory of Transformative Technologies,” in Michael Heim’s Electric Language, he discusses Walter Ong and Eric Havelock and their (separate) studies of orality. The background for my next point is essentially his discussion of the reason for epic poems and sagas of oral cul...

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A New Literacy?

• September 12, 2007
• 2 Comments
• digital orality
• Posted by Time Barrow

One consideration within my larger discussion and interest of new media (NM) as a return to orality is that it requires a new literacy. Clearly, I do not believe that the advent of podcasting and comparable trends are returning us to a solely oral culture. You can't unknow what you know. That is, ...

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• orality