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The rules are changing
A coming of age and some insight into the past Why should you care about orality? This has been a tough question for me. After all, if I can’t answer this, then to put it lightly, what’s the point? And then, when talking it out with someone recently, I made a connection. It’s been a…
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Non binary
Orality is fluid; so are we. Last week I introduced Walter J. Ong and my first comparison with his characteristics of oral cultures. The power in the choice of a pronoun. And this leads me to a perception of what could be a characteristic of a literate culture Binary thought McLuhan, Postman, Ong, and I’m sure…
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Who’s Ong?
Walter J. Ong: Orality and Literacy I’ve already introduced you to McLuhan. Now, let’s introduce you to another figure that’s currently shaping my perspectives. Walter J. Ong. How he influence the conversation of “Orality”? His work is foundational. While I still have to get into his more history-based works, his main focus was in a small…
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What is Orality?
Good question Since I’m going to say the word a lot, we might as well set the ground rules around it, eh? ( yes, I’m Canadian ) “the quality of being oral or orally communicated” – the dictionary That’s it. Think of it as the verbal version of literate. I tried to play with language…
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3 Words
I’ve done a few different methods to help give a year a barometer for success. Most years I’ve stuck with only 1 word. But I’ve always watched Chris Brogan’s 3 Words method – and I’m going to give it a shot this year. For those curious to know more. Here’s the run down. BE. I’ve…