Posting Orality and Literacy Assignment

While challenging, I found this assignment to be satisfying and I can see where it will be useful as I continue to research this project. The research that I'm doing is really fascinating to me, but difficult because I lack any real background proficiency. So this timeline and chart might not look like a whole lot, but the represent hours of research and organization.

I've uploaded the documents as pdf for your viewing pleasure. They might not be creative or graphically flashy, but these were more useful to help me organize my thoughts anyway.

Timeline

Concept Chart

Orality-->Literacy-->Biotechnology (Preston)

Here is my Ong Timeline (with discussion) and synchronic analysis (below). Some minor formatting was lost in conversion from .docx to .jpg (the color margins shifted) but it shouldn't make a difference in the reading or viewing of the chart.

Valerie's Ong Chart & Timeline

Hello Everyone -

Please find my chart and timeline here. Please click this link. Thanks - Valerie

Marcy's Ong Chart/Timeline

Hello all,
My timeline/chart is a pdf which may take a while to download, so please be patient. Follow the bookmarks to navigate the timeline and images. Follow this link for my works cited.

thank you,
Marcy

Terie's Ong Chart and Timeline

Hi everyone:).

Please enjoy my timeline and my primitive chart.  Just in case these files don't expand, I will put the original files in webcourses.

Kyle's Ong Chart

This is as good as it's going to get. Quite imperfect, but Leandra’s advice to add headers and the graphic inspiration from all of you helped a lot. Then I realized I needed a URL, and Google Docs lost my headers. So [wah wah] here's the link to Dropbox, but you'll still have to click on KyleOng when you get there.

Ong timeline and chart

Here is my timeline.

I have a tentative working question listed and sources that I am reviewing.

Jen W.'s Chart and Timeline

Hi, All,

My first chart analyzes the predictions made by prominent thinkers on the cusp of their changing worlds/ideologies regarding orality, print, electracy, and posthumanism. My second chart analyzes the similarities and differences between primary and secondary orality.

My timeline brings together important dates from Ong's work and important dates from trans-gendered history to show the concurrence of the use of print and then digital technology to enable first visibility and finally the positive social action that can come from this visibility for trans people.


See my chart here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14389995/Wojton%20Ong%20Chart%20012111.docx

Check out my timeline here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14389995/Wojton%20Timeline%20012411.pdf

My Works Cited:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14389995/WOJTON%20works%20cited%20timeline%20and%20chart%20012400.docx

Ong and Comics; Briefly Charting Synchronic and Diachronic History

Greetings T&T Historians,

Attached is the Google docs link to my chart and timeline of Ong, including a brief history of comics and graphic narratives. My chart and timeline (two separate documents) continues to evolve under my constant reformatting and review of Ong and the related research. Deciding what to include or not when writing is always difficult, but especially so when you are conscious of its historiography!

The varieties of charts and timelines posted below merit much study, as well as the oohs and aahs. I look forward to discovering new insights into Ong and thank you in advance for any and all feedback.

Tricia Carlton

Interacting with Genre Fiction: Irene L. Pynn

Here's a link to mine! There were so many items I could have included on the timeline; possibly the hardest part was making sure I had selected the "correct" ones and left out anything that might bog it down. This can definitely be expanded. Also, my chart feels a bit debatable in some places. I'd love to see how others feel about it. Thanks for all of the great feedback! :)

(Please note: there is a column of links on the right side of this page that will not work. Not to worry; they're for something else entirely).

Elle's Ong Chart

Hi All:

My chart/timeline can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/home#::: [I hope anyway--submitting work is usually much easier than doing the work.]

Best,

Elle O'Keeffe

Ong and Disability Access to Education

I had a lot of fun doing this, and conquered a bit of some technology snafus! My chart can be viewed here and my time line can be viewed here.

My focus for this was looking at how Ong's ideas fit in with access to education for students with disability. I found that I got lost in the history of the assistive technologies. I want to look more in to how oral culture was beneficial for the blind. I also found that there isn't a lot of research done on those with disabilities pre 1800's, they seem to be ostracized and viewed as "dumb." I'd like to look in to this a lot more. As for Ong I tried to relate his modes of communication with the assistive technologies they forced the creation of, and the political and legal ramifications of these technologies.

I'm looking forward to your input.
Thanks!
Krista Domin

Dan's Combined Chart and Timeline

Here's a link to my project. It's a large .swf file so be patient with the download. It can also be viewed here, but the default Prezi screen size just doesn't allow enough pan and zoom to make it user-friendly.

I really enjoyed plotting the points in 2D space, but fitting so much data on a screen was difficult. I tried to visualize it on a large white board and replicate that in the Prezi work space. Studying how Ong chose his sources and where he placed them helped me understand the references to Hayden White in Dr. Saper's lectures as well as make connections to my own research.

Those of you who've posted your drafts and final projects have done a wonderful job! I love the diversity both in content and presentation! Thanks for your feedback and comments.

Dan

Ong and Markup

I have to preface this with a note that I'm not really proficient with Blogger (or blogs in general); it looks like I can't attach my file directly to this post. Instead, I'll have to ask everyone to download it from my Dropbox here. It's not a traditional presentation in that it doesn't go from beginning slide to end slide; instead, from the timeline slide, you can use your pointer to click on pictures to go to specific categories/time periods (e.g., literacy or secondary orality) out of order, if you wish.

My topic deals with markup, or the practice of making explicit interpretations about a text, in relation to Ong's modes of communications. In particular, I've noted how each mode (orality, literacy, and electracy, to borrow Ulmer's term) has correlating forms of markup.

Please enjoy, and comments are welcome!

- Will

Timeline + Chart

Timeline Integrating Ong & My Research:

Visual Representation of Ong's Argument:

Music as a Text or Thing: How Does Music Fit In With the Development of Writing?

• As you can see, this is a simple visual representation Walter Ong’s argument in Orality & Literacy. There are some neat correlations with the history of music notation/storage and the history of writing. The same impulses that caused people to write down spoken words and make visual representations of them are the same that led humans to create musical notation and compositions. Like with writing, music could become more complex and layered once notation was developed & standardized. In short, how we consciously understand music was also reshaped by writing.
• Outside of highbrow culture, which in the West was based on written musical compositions; a great deal of music remained oral. It was learned, imitated and passed on orally. Ong might call this “oral residue.” The modern “discovery” of oral cultures in the early twentieth century that Ong details coincides with the technological development of sophisticated field recording techniques, and the rise of music recording in general. So, it’s no accident that academics and intellectuals like Harry Smith, J.A. Lomax and his son, Alan, were interested in preserving, collecting, compiling, printing, recording, anthologizing and archiving folk music which had never been transcribed or collected for a mass audience. Think about the folk songs that you know. No doubt that you learned them from recordings, sheet music or some other way that was the result of them being transcribed. Thus, they became standardized and lost many of the regional variations that they once had when they were only orally transmitted. So, through the process of recording and transcription, even folk music became secondarily oral.
• Part of the appeal of the 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music is that to many people, it represented a world that no longer existed, even though many of the recordings had been made only 20-25 years prior to its release – listeners heard the “old, weird America” that had given way to the present era of industrialization, mass culture and post-war consumerism. Like the argument that Ong makes about the book, the recording also creates a sense of “closure.” Similar to the book, a sound recording is also a world unto itself.
• In 1964, the pianist Glenn Gould quit public performance to concentrate on recording. He had already predicted the death of the public performance, and anticipated that electronic media would take its place. One of the benefits was the prospect of “archival recording.” As recording companies demanded more product and as storage capabilities improved, there was a greater demand for the complete works of a given composer. A musician could interpret a work, record it, and shelf it without having to commit it to memory for performance. The machinery of the studio acted as a memory aid or extension of the artist himself, freeing him to explore a wider repertoire, much like Ong argues that writing allowed for a greater degree of introspection and exploration of new ideas.

William G. Bryan

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