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Loading... Orality and Literacy (1982)by Walter J. Ong
None. This is a classic on the topic of how the word was technologized, how written language and printing has changed our relations to language and communication. For interaction designers, it is an excellent example of how a particularly relevant technology can be understood and analyzed.  jonas.lowgren | Jun 9, 2011 |  Ong raises a lot of interesting ideas, but his scholarship strikes me as anything but rigorous. I get the feeling that he can stretch his examples to support any point he happens to wish to make. I was convinced by his argument that particular media inform content and may even structure consciousness. But I didn't buy the dichotomy he set up between oral and literate cultures... I couldn't find any rhyme or reason in which cultures he designated as oral, and which as literate, so I concluded that pretty much every contemporary culture includes aspects of both. I don't see that literacy has supplanted orality, nor that it ever will -- they seem to be constantly informing each other. (  )1  amydross | Sep 14, 2009 | A must-read for anyone who has thought about how print shaped human destiny and thought processes. I love this book. (  ) sonyau | Jul 14, 2009 | Absolutely brilliant book. Enjoyed it tremendously--lots of underlines. jaygheiser | Jul 23, 2008 | Perhaps one of the most important books I've read. The accessible theory rendered in fresh langauge makes the nuance of the arguments all the more effective. Secondary Orality is a fascinating idea and Ong does a masterful job of exploring how human cognition has been affected in its engagement with the technology of writing. There is also plenty of ground here for linguists and cognitive scientists to debate. An excellent lens for literary analysis. (  ) katie.ann | Jun 7, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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