secondary orality. The tendency of electronic media to echo the cadences of earlier oral cultures.
“If you examine the Web through the lens of orality, you can’t help but see it everywhere: Orality is participatory, interactive, communal and focused on the present. The Web is all of these things.”
From the Sunday New York Times piece Friending, Ancient or Otherwise, citing Irwin Chen, a design instructor at Parsons who is developing a new course to explore the emergence of oral culture online, in reference to the term "secondary orality" as it was coined in 1982 by the Rev. Walter J. Ong, a professor at St. Louis University and student of Marshall McLuhan.
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The web is anonymous and insular and self absorbed. Not very fertile ground for community in my book.
cool. I don't get a lot of surly comments. thanks, M!
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