Walter J. Ong / Friedrich a. Kittler
Group. 9
~ Sabreena, Laureance, Kathryn and Ryan~
Walter Ong's text "Orality and Literacy" looks at the differences between primary oral cultures and those that don’t have a system of writing. It looks at how the shift from an oral-based stage of consciousness to one dominated by writing and print changes the way we humans think. Ong also discusses a “secondary orality” of present-day high-technology culture which is definitely where we fit in. This secondary orality is one dominated by electric modes of communication like the telephone, radio, television, etc. All of which depend on writing and print to function and exist.
The text is not only interesting and filled with interesting research and facts; it’s also a bit shocking. To think that even among the 3,000 or so languages which currently exist, only 78 have a writing system or literature. It’s something you never really think about, and when you hear about it, you don’t know how to react to it. Is it a bad thing? Who knows? We’ve lived our whole lives reading and writing so we don’t know what it would be like without it, it’s really hard to even imagine. Our culture has become a very visual one and is moving further and further away from being one that is oral-aural-based
~ Sabreena, Laureance, Kathryn and Ryan~
Walter Ong's text "Orality and Literacy" looks at the differences between primary oral cultures and those that don’t have a system of writing. It looks at how the shift from an oral-based stage of consciousness to one dominated by writing and print changes the way we humans think. Ong also discusses a “secondary orality” of present-day high-technology culture which is definitely where we fit in. This secondary orality is one dominated by electric modes of communication like the telephone, radio, television, etc. All of which depend on writing and print to function and exist.
The text is not only interesting and filled with interesting research and facts; it’s also a bit shocking. To think that even among the 3,000 or so languages which currently exist, only 78 have a writing system or literature. It’s something you never really think about, and when you hear about it, you don’t know how to react to it. Is it a bad thing? Who knows? We’ve lived our whole lives reading and writing so we don’t know what it would be like without it, it’s really hard to even imagine. Our culture has become a very visual one and is moving further and further away from being one that is oral-aural-based
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