{"id":43,"date":"2016-09-17T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwagner\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:25:20","slug":"assignment-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwagner\/2016\/09\/17\/assignment-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1.3 – Changing Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous categorizing of literature and orality by some poststructuralists<\/a>,\u00a0and the Toronto School, has led to a single-sensory conception of media (Macneil), presenting ideas about the validity of literacy opposed to the tribal nature of orality. As Courtney Macneil states classifications, such as Ong\u2019s, that suppose \u201corality exists either in isolation from literacy, or as subservient to it\u201d disallows recognition of the interdependency between these two communicatory medias. The restrictedness of this type of thought does not acknowledge the complex and blurred relationship between orality and literature, which is only being heightened through the use of the www and digital media. Has Macneil stated, \u201cthe advent of contemporary internet\u00a0culture has encouraged the recognition that oral and textual need not be viewed from a hierarchical perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea that orality and literacy are in hierarchical competition with one another is a fading notion as technological advances have led to an age of digital media that incorporates many forms of communication: textual, visual, oral and aural. Digtal media has challenged the existing, and more binary, perspectives of the relationship between orature and literature; in the world of digital media text may be evanescent (eg. snapchat) and orality may be permanent (eg. audio files). The digital age has encouraged a blurring between literacy and orality in many ways, such as enabling widespread self-publication and the use of hyperlinks.<\/p>\n

There is a social media medium<\/a> available to share any and all facets of one\u2019s life, perspective and outlook, this technological availability has enabled widespread self-publication on a massive scale. \u00a0Where in the past people would share their daily lives (thoughts, achievements etc.) to one person or possibly a small group of people, social media outlets, such as facebook, have enabled individuals to share their stories with a mass audience. This ability to display one\u2019s life simultaneously through oral, visual and textual medias has led to aspects of life which, perhaps previous to technology, would have been aural to become literature. \u00a0Another significant way self-publication has changed the examination of literacy and orality is through apps, such as twitter, which allow people to read stories from many different perspectives in bite size pieces and in real time; this style of information is much more similar to a story being orally told then a physical publication, yet it is written an technically literature. Much of what is available in text format through social media is not what one would consider \u201cliterature\u201d when using the previous categorization of literature and orality.<\/p>\n

Yet, perhaps the most interesting way that digital media has changed categorizations is through the use of hyperlinks. As discussed in the lesson this week there is a distinction between a listener and a reader. And that distinction allows that a listener often has far more power over a story than someone who is reading text. However, hyperlinks change the relationship between reader and text, because they provide the reader the opportunity to uncover more information and to supplement the ideas in the text in front of them. Through hyperlinks the reader gains more power over the story. This change in relationship between reader and text begins to blur that distinction between listener and reader, further muddying the division between literature and orality.<\/p>\n

Works Cited
\nMacNeil, Courtney. “The Chicago School of Media Theory Theorizing Media since 2003.” The Chicago School of Media Theory RSS<\/em>. Chicago University, n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2016.<\/p>\n

Shade, L. R., and L. R. Shade. Social Media Society: My so-Called Social Media Life<\/i>. 1 Vol. , 05\/11\/2015. Web.<\/p>\n

Williams, James. “Introduction: What Is Poststructuralism?” Understanding Poststructuralism<\/i>. Chesham, Bucks: Acumen Pub., 2005. 1-24. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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