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Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind by John Miles Foley (Paperback, 2012)

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The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on What? but on How do I get there? In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it's pathways--not things--that matter. To illustrate these ideas, this volume is designed as a morphing book, a collection of linked nodes that can be read in innumerable different ways. Doing nothing less fundamental than challenging the default medium of the linear book and page and all that they entail, Oral Tradition and the Internet shows readers that there are large, complex, wholly viable, alternative worlds of media-technology out there--if only they are willing to explore, to think outside the usual, culturally constructed categories. This brick-and-mortar book exists as an extension of The Pathways Project (http://pathwaysproject.org), an open-access online suite of chapter-nodes, linked websites, and multimedia all dedicated to exploring and demonstrating the dynamic relationship between oral tradition and Internet technology

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PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-139780252078699

eBay Product ID (ePID)115933951

Product Key Features

Publication Year2012

SubjectEngineering & Technology, Social Sciences

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn Miles Foley

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height235 mm

Item Width156 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorJohn Miles Foley