Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

"Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word" explores how communication shifts with different technologies. Orality refers to spoken words and oral traditions, relying on memory and face-to-face interaction. Literacy involves written language, enabling information to be recorded, stored, and shared across time and space. The book examines how the development of writing and printing technologies transformed human culture, cognition, and social structures by changing how we create, transmit, and preserve knowledge. It highlights the profound impact of technological advances on the way humans communicate, think, and organize societies.