Description
Identify an event, technology, theory, or practice that interests you. Briefly summarize each of them in your own words (although you must also cite the original sources) and compare them in terms of categories or themes such as orality, literacy, time/space bias (ritual preservation or economic advancement?), and/or knowledge control (democratic?)
Choose from these topics:
Ong’s model of orality and secondary orality
the impacts of print literacy on knowledge acquisition
evidence of time and space biases in different societies
the diffusion of innovation
economic, political, and cultural implications of new communication technologies
elite control over knowledge
echoes of historic technologies in today’s devices