Tag Archives: technology

Shaped by technology

Posted on October 26, 2012 by dlclled

The invention and popularization of the personal computer almost 30 years ago opened the door to the auto-edition era and therefore, to the informal knowledge and use of typography. But typography as a concept has existed since Gutenberg’s invention of … Continue reading →

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Writing – An Autonomous Discourse for a ‘Fictional’ Audience

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Johanne Brochu

The act of writing might be isolated but to be a good writer in order to reach what Ong (2002) called the ‘fictional’ audience (p. 100), I believe, is to use the ‘right’ written words, the ones that reflect our … Continue reading →

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What was the Judgement of Thamus?

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Sheila

Commentary 1: What was The Judgement of Thamus? Neil Postman begins his book Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology with the Judgment of Thamus in order to elucidate “several sound principles” (p. 4) to guide his thinking on the … Continue reading →

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Write & Wrong

Posted on September 30, 2012 by mcquaid

Introduction In the first few weeks of our course, we have read and talked about two separate cultures – oral ones, and literate ones. In the past, especially, oral cultures have been thought to be more simple, primitive, and not … 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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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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Auto-corrects

Posted on September 23, 2012 by learle

While I was doing my daily web-browsing habits this morning, I came across a pin on Pinterest that brought a new thought to the word TEXT and its power. Yes, text or texting has power over each and every one … Continue reading →

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Technology – Perpetual Change

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Rocky Lam

In our readings, O’Donnell and Engell stresses that we should use technology as a learning tool. When I think of technology, it centralizes on the idea of “Control”. Who is controlling who? Are we that reliant on technology that it … 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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