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Marcel Jousse: Forgotten Pioneer of Media Studies
Marcell Jousse was a pioneering scholar of gesture and orality. He was a younger contemporary and student of Marcel Mauss. During the inter-war years, he published a series of seminal studies on orali… more →
The Frailest Thing
Virtual Distribution and Preservation: Moving From Chisels to Pixels (Project #3)
wrote 2 weeks ago: View the Prezi Presentation! If you prefer less hyper-zooming: Use this Link Remember writing on the … more →
Quiz 6: Negroponte and Digital Writing
wrote 1 month ago: In Negroponte’s Being Digital, he suggested many evolutions that technology in 1995 would take … more →
On Walter Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” by EK Pope
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wrote 1 month ago: Reblogged from ravenouslanguage: In his essay, “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought,” … more →
Writing Restructured
wrote 1 month ago: Writing Technology: The Pen and Prepared Paper In his book, Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong suggest … more →
What is Second Orality?
wrote 1 month ago: Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy: A Brief Summary In the book Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong ment … more →
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon
wrote 1 month ago: The changing means and mechanisms of publishing through time, and the expansion and change in public … more →
Reflection on: "Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought
wrote 4 months ago: Ong says that literacy is imperious and that it is expected from everyone as the norm, especially in … more →
A Little Graffiti and A Birthday Punt
wrote 4 months ago: By Paul Guzzardo Reflection on the condition of the new media and the changes they are effecting in … more →
Worms and Bicycles Or How People Make For Strange Stories: Menocchio and Igor Kenk
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wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been rereading Pop Sandbox’s Kenk: A Graphic Portrait and I kind of wish that this … more →
Reviews: The review
wrote 5 months ago: This past Friday played out like any other. Taking a moment’s reprieve from our labours, my colleagu … more →
The 100th Anniversary of Walter J. Ong's Birth (1912-2003)
wrote 5 months ago: Last year was the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth (1912-1980). This year we celebrate th … more →
'Catholic' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does
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wrote 7 months ago: The following article first appeared in The Huffington Post on Saturday, October 20, 2012. If you we … more →
Writing and Thinking
wrote 8 months ago: Between most and all of the information for this post comes from Orality & Literacy: The Technol … more →
The Unnatural Technology of Reading and Writing
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wrote 8 months ago: The Unnatural Technology of Reading and Writing Reading takes us away from home, but more important, … more →
The Shallows (a Review)
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wrote 1 year ago: [updated on 12 May: I was in a bit of a bad mood when I wrote the original version of this review, a … more →
Marcel Jousse: Forgotten Pioneer of Media Studies
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wrote 1 year ago: Marcell Jousse was a pioneering scholar of gesture and orality. He was a younger contemporary and st … more →
Follow the New Sensorium (Athens) Symposium Online
wrote 1 year ago: You are all invited to participate remotely to “The new sensorium: embodied perception, extens … more →
Symposium: The New Sensorium, Athens, Greece, April 20-21
wrote 1 year ago: The new sensorium: embodied perception, extensions of humanity & digital communication An in … more →
McLuhan & Ong on the Cultural Shift From Orality to Literacy
wrote 1 year ago: Marshall McLuhan at centre & Father Walter Ong to his right, Saint Louis University by Matthew F … more →
