Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis - Chris Lott

Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis

Chris Lott, Disruptive TechnologistUniversity of Alaska FairbanksCenter for Distance Education

Jared Stein, Director of Instructional Design ServicesUtah Valley University

Housekeeping

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In Conclusion…

In the Beginning:Information Fluency

What is Participation?

Reviving Rhetoric

inventiodispositioelocutiomemoria

actio

Digital Literacyvs.

Information Fluency

The “Problem”of

Digital Literacy

Literacy&

Texts

Outliersand

Inconsistencies

Toward Practical Theory

The DemarcationBetween

Literacy & Fluency

Fluency&

Power

Secondary Orality,New Literacies

& Fluency

Walter Ong&

the “Gutenberg Parenthesis”

(Oralculture )Written

(chirographic)culture

SecondaryOrality

Persistence&

Synchronicity

New Affordances&

Old Models

Verification&

Malleability

Closure&

Revision

The “Body” of Work&

Backward-Scanning

Scholarly and Formal&

Personal and Informal

Writing as Artifact&

Writing as Talking

Literature is not remarks…

The Demise of Genre

“We” the Pre-Literate

Recapitulatingthe

Elements of Drama

Plot ♦ Theme ♦ Character ♦ Diction (Language/Dialogue) ♦ Music (Rhythm) ♦ Spectacle

Mass Communication&

Mass Imagination

Conclusion

Or

Go Real Fast Now!

Technology as Memory&

Technology for Remembering

Individual, Collective, CulturalMemory

Memory, Memes&

Remembrance

New Media&

Augmentation

(Oralculture )Written

(chirographic)culture

SecondaryOrality

(Oralculture )Written

(chirographic)culture

HereBe

Dragons

Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis

Chris Lott@fncll - chris.lott@alaska.edu

Jared Stein@jstein – jared.stein@uvu.edu

Web Page for Session Materialshttp://rhetorica.uaf.edu/wiki/WCET09/

U-Stream Archivehttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/ruminate