Sentences with phrase «secondary orality»
An early student of electronic orality was the Rev. Walter J. Ong, a professor at St. Louis University and student of Marshall McLuhan who coined the term «secondary orality» in 1982 to describe the tendency of electronic media to echo the cadences of earlier oral cultures.
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«Secondary orality has a leveling effect,» Dr. Strate says.
Dr. Wesch, for one, says he worries that the rise of secondary orality may have a paradoxical consequence: «It may be gobbling up what's left of our real oral culture.»
In our age of secondary orality, we are group - minded self - consciously and programmatically.»
This he calls a «secondary orality».
Some years ago, commenting on the seminal work of Innis, McLuhan, Havelock, Ong and others, I suggested that television and radio in communicating through what Ong called Secondary Orality, had created a world of Secondary Tribalism (Phelan 1980).