Orality in the twilight of humanism: A critique of the communication theory of Harold Innis

Angus, Ian

doi:10.1080/10304319309365587

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“…Twenty-four eager bodies deprived of six dollars for the trip across the busy harbor have found seating room on the 10 a.m. Island Mist. Qualitative Inquiry Angus (1993) suggested that the twentieth century "may be described as the twilight of humanist civilization (p. 14)."…”

Section: Figure 1 Nanaimo's Floating Dock By the Protection Connection Terminalmentioning

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Of Walking Shoes, Boats, Golf Carts, Bicycles, and a Slow Technoculture

Vannini

2008

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Drawing on participant observation conducted on Protection Island, British Columbia, this article examines the significance of technologies of movement and, in particular, embodied media. It advances the argument that embodied media (i.e., technologies of transportation) differ significantly from disembodied media (traditional information media and new media). Utilizing media ecology and symbolic interactionist theory, this visual, sensuous, reflexive, poetic, McLuhanesque ethnography shows how the uniqueness of technoculture on Protection Island is due to the unique local patterns of interaction between techniques and technics of movement. Such patterns are conceptualized as "heavy" and "slow," and their consequences for social relationships, and in particular the structure of space, are described and interpreted. Also discussed is the role of technography or ethnography of technology.

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Section: Figure 1 Nanaimo's Floating Dock By the Protection Connection Terminalmentioning

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Of Walking Shoes, Boats, Golf Carts, Bicycles, and a Slow Technoculture

Vannini

2008

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“…There is no way for that which has really been forgotten to survive. Consequently, oral society orients much of its energy toward not forgetting, toward continuously re-enacting the past in the present" (cited in Angus, 1993).…”

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“…The control is especially ensured by traditional professional communication's conversion of oral narrative to a written form. Angus (1993) explains,…”

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