Orality and Literacy
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Joe Weisenthal👍 Recommends
…recommending foundational academic work on how communication media shapes society
“And then there's two books written several decades ago that I recommend to almost everyone. Walter Ong's Orelity and Literacy which I've been talking about a lot which is basically the way like our communication environment is such that we're like an oral society increasingly not just by the fact that we literally talk more on a podcast but that everything is back and forth in this and therefore you don't have this sort of logical contemplation of the person sitting alone in a room actually reading text and judging text on its own merits. He anticipated a lot of changes with social media and the phones decades ago and I think it's a lot better than reading a lot of contemporary stuff because it doesn't try to shoehorn contemporary events into a theory.”
The Ezra Klein Show — The Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025at 1:20:54
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