Tag Archives: literacy

Bridging Dichotomies

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Nicola Einarson

Please follow this link to view my formal commentary, Bridging Dichotomies. For my commentary I attempted to explore the possibilities of a hypertext writing space. I used a tool for creating interactive stories called Twine. Twine allows for graphic organization … Continue reading →

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Commentary #1

Posted on September 30, 2012 by mckay

In the chapter ‘Some Psychodynamics of Orality’, from the 1982 text Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong provides a generalization of the psychodynamics found in oral and primarily oral cultures. The exercise examines the thoughts, mechanics, patterns, mnemonics, and strategies of … Continue reading →

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Media Literacy: Preparing for the Collision of Worldviews

Posted on September 30, 2012 by maybacon

In “The Judgment of Thamus”, the introductory chapter to his book entitled Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), Postman identifies the dangers of embracing new technologies blindly; he argues, as did McLuhan, that technologies inherently determine what use … Continue reading →

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Eye ear what you’re saying, but eye fEAR what you’re doing

Posted on September 30, 2012 by learle

Commentary based on the article Biases of the Ear and Eye, by Daniel Chandler All human beings have two eyes and two ears, but only one heart as the saying goes; therefore, they are meant to be able to see … Continue reading →

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A Deeper Look At Orality

Posted on September 30, 2012 by jkotler

For many people, especially those of younger generations, the concept of an oral society is rarely, if ever, contemplated because the reality is, the further societies around the world moved towards literacy, the more orality faded into the background. As … Continue reading →

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Putting Speech into Print

Posted on September 29, 2012 by kstooshnov

London at the turn of the 16th century was becoming a melting pot of different cultures, both oral and literate people made up the society with approximately 80% of the city’s population were illiterate. The technological advance of the printing … Continue reading →

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Technology and “Closure”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by dlclled

WALTER ONG  (2010) STATES in a very straightforward way that print “encourage the sense of closure” (p. 129). He does it in the context of a book that illustrate his categorical and binary (as Chandler called it) vision of information … Continue reading →

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Great Divide or Gentle Drift?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by joypenner

Great Divide or Gentle Drift? In his work Orality and Literacy, Ong (2002) suggests a number of distinctive characteristics that define ways of thinking for both oral and literate cultures. He uses these contrasting aspects to prove his bold theory … Continue reading →

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A Composition of Contextual Symbols

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Johanne Brochu

My definition of the word “text”: A text is a composition of « socially contextual symbols » that form a language and from which conveys meaning to be communicated.  Nevertheless, the text does not exist without its interaction with the world. To … Continue reading →

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what type of technology?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Sheila

I chose this picture to reflect McLuhan’s pronouncement that “movable type was archetype and prototype for all subsequent industrial development.” The printing press was a major shift in text technology that changed the ‘authority’ structure of society completely and revolutionized … Continue reading →

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