Orality, Literacy, Electracy

Resources

Readings

• Chandler (1995) Biases of the Ear and Eye
• Chandler (1995) Technological or Media Determinism
• Elizabeth Eisenstein
• Jack Goody
  • Goody profile (AnthroBase)
  • Goody Interview (by Eric Hobsbawm) (Quicktime video)
  • Domestication of the Savage Mind
  • Goody and Watt (1963) The Consequences of Literacy part 2
  • Macfarlane (2002) People who have influenced me most pdf
• Christina Haas
  • Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
    • review by Lee Honeycutt
• Lilly Review of the Orality/Literacy Literature
• Liu Literature and the Culture of Information (lecture notes, 2001)
• Walter Ong
  • Walter Ong obituary (KWMU - Univ of Missouri)
  • Orality and Literacy
• Gregory Ulmer
  'Electracy' is a neologism coined by Ulmer to describe a new skill set that is emerging alongside oral and print literacies. It a term that describes new forms of 'writing,' 'reading,' and 'research' that are currently taking form in the age of digital communictions.
  • Ulmer home page
  • Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy (2003)
    • review (by Jenny Edbauer)
    • review (by Julie Kearney)
    • book announcement
    • A conversation with Talan Memmott
    • Electracy and Pedagogy The issue of research papers and tests in relation to the Web as a way to focus the nature of "electracy" as idea.
    • Conversation regarding 'electracy'
  • A Project for a New Consultancy (Joseph Tabbi)
• Yagelski The Oral vs. the Literate

July 03, 2009