Orality and Literacy Information Technology and Social Life January 24, 2005.

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Orality and Literacy Information Technology and Social Life January 24, 2005

Information Technology and Social Life Question Why is it important for us to understand the history of orality and the origins of literacy?

Information Technology and Social Life Walter Ong Retired professor of humanities from St. Louis University Thesis adviser - Marshall McLuhan Studied what he called the psychodynamics of orality and literacy How peoples’ minds work in oral/literate cultures Assumes that the way people handle, present information has some bearing on how they think Nature of sound - evanescence

Information Technology and Social Life Features of oral culture Potency and power of words Knowledge based on recall Participatory and communal Memory systems aided by verse, rhythmic language, proverbs Interiority - related to human consciousness Word has reference only to sound; no visual representation Transitional literacy - elements of both oral and literate cultures; written text serve as record of events Secondary Orality - implications to “global village”

Information Technology and Social Life Eric Havelock Professor of Classics at Yale Equates alphabet w/ literacy Alphabet made possible democratization vs. “craft literacy” of scribal cultures Posits psychological effects; don’t have to think about it once learned; reduced need for recall Allowed for establishment of a large corpus of prose Separation of knowledge from knower; increase in abstraction Made possible “the development of codified law, monotheism, abstract science, deductive logic, objective history, and individualism”

Information Technology and Social Life Function of Alphabet Greek alphabet developed around 700 B.C. Democratization dependent not only on invention of alphabet; but the acceptance and dissemination in culture Elite status of scribe First used to record oral literature of Greece; not for human conversation Transcribe complete vernacular of human language “The important and influential statement in any culture is the one that is preserved.” Relinquished mental energy; increased expansion of knowledge. Availability of materials/perishability; ability to copy/distribute becomes important Printing press developed centuries later maximized the utility of alphabet.