Comments on: Don’t buy a Kindle – get a library card. A response to “The Digital Future of Books”

By: mturro

mturro — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:36 +0000

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mturro — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:12:36 +0000

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By: games

games — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:41:26 +0000

This article I so true, keep on writing like this, enjoyment to read 543

By: seantheshoeguy

seantheshoeguy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:29:57 +0000

Yes thanks John… very thought-provoking…

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NXTblog - The blog of NXTbook Media » Blog Archive » Kindle-ing — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:31:24 +0000

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By: mturro

mturro — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:55:10 +0000

John – thanks for the link – good stuff there.

As far as the use of “secondary orality” in this context – I’m not married to it. I can just as easily accept the terms secondary literacy and secondary visualism – at least as far as where we stand today. Still, as the internet matures, I do believe we’ll eventually evolve past secondary literacy and we’ll start to see real time communication of a purely aural/oral nature dominate. I see us on a slow evolutionary path from literacy to secondary literacy to secondary orality to ultimately – orality. but as I say in my post above, I don’t anticipate being around to see that come to fruition.

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Blog Kindle · Sunday Night Links #8: 25 May 2008 — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:03:41 +0000

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By: John Walter

John Walter — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:29:24 +0000

The problem with using secondary orality in this context, I think, is that it refers to the aural/oral realm. Ong did use it to refer to television, the orality of which is secondary orality, but he also started using the terms “secondary literacy” and “secondary visualism” in the 1990s. You can find the terms in a published interview:

Kleine, Michael, and Fredric G. Gale. “The Elusive Presence of the Word: An Interview with Walter Ong.” Composition FORUM 7.2 (1996): 65-86)

and in an unpublished lecture “Secondary Orality and Secondary Visualism” available from the Lectures page of the Walter J. Ong Collection: http://libraries.slu.edu/sc/ong/digital/lecture...