Oral Tradition and the Internet
Pathways of the Mind
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2012
312 pages
978-0-252-09430-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. 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. Challenging the default medium of the linear book and page and all that they entail, 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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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Nodes
- Preface
- For Book-readers Only
- Home Page
- Getting Started
- Disclaimer
- Book versus Website
- Response
- Linkmaps
- Nodes in Alphabetical Order
- A Foot in Each World
- Accuracy
- Agora As Verbal Marketplace
- Agora Correspondences
- Agoraphobia
- Arena of Oral Tradition
- Arena of Text
- Arena of the Web
- Audience Critique
- Bellerophon and His Tablet
- Citizenship in Multiple Agoras
- Cloud and Tradition
- Contingency
- Culture As Network
- Culture Shock
- Distributed Authorship
- Don't Trust Everything You Read in Books
- eAgora
- eCompanions
- eEditions
- ePathways
- eWords
- Excavating an Epic
- Freezing Wikipedia
- Getting Published or Getting Sequestered
- Homo Sapiens' Calendar Year
- How to Build a Book
- Ideology of the Text
- Illusion of Object
- Illusion of Stasis
- Impossibility of tPathways
- In the Public Domain
- Indigestible Words
- Just the Facts
- Leapfrogging the Text
- Misnavigation
- Morphing Book
- Museum of Verbal Art
- Not So Willy-nilly
- oAgora
- Online with OT
- oPathways
- Owning versus Sharing
- oWords
- Polytaxis
- Proverbs
- Reading Backwards
- Real-time versus Asynchronous
- Reality Remains in Play
- Recur Not Repeat
- Remix
- Responsible Agora-business
- Resynchronizing the Event
- Singing on the Page
- Spectrum of Texts
- Stories Are Linkmaps
- tAgora
- Texts and Intertextuality
- Three Agoras
- tWords
- Variation within Limits
- Why Not Textualize
- Wiki
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index
