Tag Archives: writing

Is Determinism Too Determined?

Posted on September 30, 2012 by kstackhouse

Is Determinism Too Determined? Introduction Ong (1982) poses that the technology of writing enables us to reach our full potential, that we can gain a higher consciousness, and to “live and to understand fully, we need proximity but also distance” … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

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 →

Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Novel Writing… Live!

Posted on September 16, 2012 by mcquaid

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPZ5CY9KoM[/youtube] I was holding off for some sort of e-divine inspiration to strike me so that I could make my post on technology. It didn’t really happen, but this is what came to me in the last day: I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , | 2 Comments

The Impact of Technology on Literate Environments

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Johanne Brochu

This image and quote from Richardson is representing technology and how it is evolving the complexity of the changing spaces or reading and writing.  New forms of representation are developing with the use of new media and it changes the … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment