Walter Ong is not a writer I was familiar with and was excited to delve into his writings. For some reason I found his prose unreadable so my comments are minimal. I guess for me the basics are between reading, interpreting and interfacing. While reading might have been new at one time, story telling was always practiced. Now we read, write and listen using the computer and our dependancy on technology has for sure changed our relationship to orality and literacy.
Storytelling is interactive as one hears what one ones, in a way, takes that and passes it along. The idea of new media allows for that possibility in that one can follow any path in a complex web of information to discern the meaning and the knowledge they are after.
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