Orality and Literacy¶
Ong, W. J. (1982). Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.
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2 citations across 2 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Cognitive Offloading
- The history of writing is the paradigmatic large-scale instance, transferring memory and computation from minds to durable inscription.
This sourceAnalyzes writing as a technology that transfers memory and thought from mind to durable inscription, restructuring cognition.
- The history of writing is the paradigmatic large-scale instance, transferring memory and computation from minds to durable inscription.
Domain-specific¶
- Media Ecology
- Print versus oral cultures — Ong's orality-and-literacy thesis, Eisenstein's print revolution, and Innis's space-bias/time-bias account of how a dominant medium shaped empire, religion, and law
This sourceOng's thesis that writing and print restructure consciousness, separating literate from oral cultures.
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- Print versus oral cultures — Ong's orality-and-literacy thesis, Eisenstein's print revolution, and Innis's space-bias/time-bias account of how a dominant medium shaped empire, religion, and law
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