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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Walter Ong"”.
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St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises
<p>Informed by the work of Walter Ong, in the <em>first prelude</em> of the <em>First Week</em> in the <em>Spiritual Exercises</em>, St. Ignatius of Loyola used an emblematical image, the “prison-cage”, to provide phenomenological accounts for the exercitants to examine the existential situation …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… works of Edward Said, Jonathan Hill, Jack Goody, Walter Ong, and Northrop Frye. Keywords: myth, metaphor, mythological narrative, literacy, literary trope, action.
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Comparing literate and oral cultures with a view to improving understanding of students from oral traditions: an autoethnographic approach
<p>In his book Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong describes the difference between cultures that have never been exposed to literature and those that have been highly influenced by literature and literacy. He suggests that such learners have a different “consciousness” as a result of their life …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
… more reliably in externalized text. </p><p> Walter Ong provides the framework for the reappraisal of communicative history by strategically forgetting the pervasive influence of technology. Recovering the older resources of orality, Ong restores a sense of balance to the oral/literate …
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Folkways and airwaves: oral history, community and vernacular radio.
… of communications theorists Harold Innis and Walter Ong, the thesis will explore the (secondary) orality of radio broadcasting, and will consider instances in which the normative unidirectional structure and 'passive' orality of radio has been (and can be) made reciprocal and active through …
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Beyond orality and literacy : reclaiming the sensorium for composition studies
… a historical and theoretical reexamination of Walter Ong in order to explore the extent to which technology transforms consciousness. I discover within his work an understanding of literacy, technology, and humanity that can help us negotiate change without succumbing to the teleological urge …
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The Role of Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication
<p>This project examines Walter Ong’s scholarship and further situates Ong in the field of media ecology. Ong’s conceptions of mediated communication begin to take form in his early-career graduate research on Peter Ramus. While Ong’s scholarship on secondary orality, and orality and literacy …
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Hardwiring consumer desire: Publishing and promoting the online technocultural experience : a critical textual analysis of Wired magazine and its advertising, 1993-1996
… Innis and his successors Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Ronald Deibert. This approach is combined, secondly, with a historical comparative analysis of the American specialist lifestyle magazine as refracted through the work of Harold Abrahamson. Finally, to analyse the relationship …
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Virtualizing The Word: Expanding Walter Ong's Theory Of Orality And Literacy Through A Culture Of Virtuality
… culture through a theoretical expansion of Walter Ong's literacy and orality culture model. It investigates the ubiquitous and multimodal nature of the virtuality cultural phenomenon that is mediated by contemporary technology and not explained by pre-existing cultural conventions. Through …
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
… <p><p>In his life and work, The Reverend Father Walter Jackson Ong (1912-2003) recognized the vital role that rhetoric plays in human communication. In Ong’s seminal text, Orality and Literacy, he identified the significance that communicative shifts have on the way we receive information and …
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A Praxis of Oral Homiletics: Preaching from the Heart
… and homiletic, Ciceronian coordinates, and an Ongian perspective on orality and literacy. It proposes an oral homiletic praxis, in anticipation of rectifying current homiletic deficiencies, that proceeds in the fashion of comprehension-internalization-proclamation. The design and plan of this …