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	Walter J. Ong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ong here is studying the historical development of personalized ego-consciousness, not the archetypal level of the human psyche (described by Robert L. Moore and Douglas Gillette in their recent series of five books).
		Ong's account of visualist tendencies suggests that personalized ego consciousness is somewhat distanced from the archetypal level of the human psyche through visualist cultural conditioning and the development of a greater sense of inwardness.
		Ong describes writing as a technology that must be laboriously learned, and which effects the first transformation of human thought from the world of sound to the world of sight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Ong (2652 words)

	Review of Ong's Orality
		Ong devotes the first three chapters of seven to "th ought and its verbal expression in oral culture" something which he admits is likely to seem "strange and at times bizarre" since we are so immersed in our own literate culture (1).
		Ong explains that this would be especially important to those trying to memorize a poem or a tale because, whereas people from a liter ate society can always refer back to a written text, those from an oral society must be able to process and memorize bits of spoken, otherwise irretrievable information quickly.
		Ong ends this chapter by discussing two major developments in the West which beautifully illustrate the constant interaction of writing and orality, the development of the complex art of rhetoric and of learned Latin.
	www.engl.niu.edu /wac/ong_rvw.html (1799 words)

	Walter Ong's Paradigm and Chinese Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ong (1982) identifies nine general features of the oral mentality: it is additive, aggregative, redundant, conservative, close to the human lifeworld, agonistical, empathetic, homeostatic, and situational.
		Ong argues that frequent use of ``and'' in linear narration can achieve instant understanding, but it can hardly express the complicated relations inside a process in which many things are happening at the same time.
		We may add to Ong's thesis that if a person is not expected to develop independent thinking, a useful way is to drown him in a sea of literature for memorization in order to consume his brain energy and regularly test him for what he has memorized.
	info.wlu.ca /~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/BackIssues/20.4/ze.html (7674 words)

	Postman contra Ong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ong, on the other hand, describes the "secondary orality" we use today as simply a new language with different rules, perhaps, but with just as much possibility of achieving the purposes of public communication.
		Ong, on the other hand, while not denying the inevitability and the power of literacy, does not denigrate orality as a substandard form of discourse that leads inevitably to foolishness, but that it is a different kind of discourse that has beauty and power in itself.
		Contrary to Postman's concerns, however, Ong would say that the introduction of visual media, such as the television, has created what he calls a "secondary orality" or an orality that is scripted, which is a very hopeful thing for preachers.
	homepage.mac.com /kentoncanderson/preaching.org/PostmanOng.html (705 words)

	The Alsop Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It was Ong’s particular brilliance to be able to enter by sheer imagination and sympathy into the deep past, into a period when writing had not yet presented itself to consciousness, and to use what he found there as a way of understanding the present.
		Ong’s investigation of “the new orality” of the electronic era caused current critics--Dana Gioia among them--to recognize a hidden history of poetry, a history which was not told by those critics for whom the poem was entirely a written object.
		Walter J. Ong’s writings are a lifelong meditation on the nature of the “word”; even his titles (Presence of the Word; Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word; Interfaces of the Word) insist upon its “presence,” and it is of no small significance that “the Word” is a traditional way of referring to Christ.
	www.alsopreview.com /columns/foley/jfong.html (4069 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Walter Ong"
		Ong's earliest essays on popular culture were harshly critical, as were similar essays in the same period by McLuhan and Kenner.
		McLuhan, Ong, Kenner, and others in their circle worked in a wide variety of academic disciplines—before "interdisciplinary" became a trendy scholarly word, they knew that any understanding of the modern world would require a polymath's wide-ranging view.
		Ong, in particular, was learned in an impressive range of fields, including intellectual history, literary theory, psychology, and evolutionary biology.
	www.jeetheer.com /culture/ong.htm (2066 words)

	TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet
		And although Walter Ong only passed away this past year (2003), he hadn't quite gotten around to considering the impact of mobile media on our styles of communication - at least not in recorded form.
		Ong's big contribution - his equivalent of McLuhan's 'medium is the message,' is his division of civilization into Oral and Literate stages.
		Ong looked at most electronic media as a kind of "Secondary Orality" - in which people speak, but their words are coming from written scripts.
	www.thefeaturearchives.com /100290.html (894 words)

	Walter J. Ong, S.J., 1912-2003 \| SLU Newslink - The Inside Guide to Saint Louis University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Prior to his appointment as University Professor of Humanities, Ong was the William E. Haren Professor of English and professor of humanities in psychiatry at the SLU School of Medicine.
		Ong rooted his work in the existence of an always-mysterious God, and when other thinkers felt trapped between what they saw as mutually exclusive alternatives, Ong built a bridge between them.
		Ong always disliked the label of a theorist, insisting that he "just tried to say how things are, describe, things." He paid careful attention to every detail in the world around him and not just philosophical matters.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/newslink/2974 (932 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Winged words
		In his examinations of popular culture, enlivened by the teaching he did in St. Louis's inner-city schools, Ong was impressed by the parallels between traditional oral societies and the media-rich environment of young Americans.
		For Ong, human history represents an evolution from ``primary orality'' (his preferred term for a historical stage often known condescendingly as ``preliterate'') to the onset of literacy with script writing.
		Ong's thinking was both influential in the contemporary academy and in some respects alien to it.
	boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/09/07/winged_words?mode=PF (1303 words)

	Untitled
		AUTHOR: Comprone, Joseph J. ABSTRACT: To link the perspectives of Walter Ong on the history of literacy to the psychological context of college writers, this paper contrasts the mind-sets that are important to writers: the oral community of the ancient epic and the modern psychological perspective, with its emphasis on the one against the many.
		In the third period (1967-present), Ong's work on the transformation of the word from orality, to literacy, to electronics, contributes to a common jargon for the issue of media shifts and the accompanying change in mental processes, with McLuhan, E. Havelock, and A. Lord reciprocal influences in Ong's orality and literacy perspective.
		Walter Ong's argument that with the advent of writing human consciousness and ways of thinking were altered fundamentally, underlies many of the claims for literacy made within literacy programs in schools and in adult settings, both in the Third World and in developed societies.
	web.syr.edu /~mdlattim/notebook/abstrax_ong.html (1766 words)

	Remembering Walter Ong: Walter Ong Online Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This time he contrasts a recorded speech of Walter Ong with one he has by the American theater legend, producer/director/writer/performer George M. Cohan.
		Ong presented a few of his major ideas that would later show up in his important works.
		Michael Greer: Walter Ong taught me to see all verbal performance as marked by the bonds of oral cultures.
	www.rememberingwalterong.com /archives/cat_walter_ong_online.html (6323 words)

	Walter J. Ong, S.J.
		Best known for his book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, Walter Ong outlined the differences in human thought and in human culture between societies with writing and societies without writing.
		Ong wrote his master's thesis and, more than 30 years later, one of his greatest books on the works of the Catholic poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
		Ong is also known for several books that helped Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s assimilate their Catholic heritage into a changing--and changeable--modern electronic culture.
	faculty.roosevelt.edu /Fallon/walter_j__ong__s_j_.html (197 words)

	A Collage of Citations » Walter Ong
		Ong states that we cannot ignore rough play and boisterousness.
		At first, I didn’t understand what Ong meant by contests that can be helpful to society or to interpersonal relationships, but he gave examples later that made sense.
		Well, I think Walter Ong (I’m about to read his book Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness) is right that our rhetoric arises from a need to display.
	oregonstate.edu /~farism/blog/?cat=21 (2498 words)

	Amazon.com: Orality and Literacy (New Accents): Books: Walter J. Ong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ong wrote this short book to meet the specifications of the New Accents Series, a series in literary studies, so he devotes much space to summarizing a wide range of material, including some of his own work.
		Ong masterfully takes the idea of the power of the alphabet, and points to the impact this has on human understanding, an impact which has not fully been accepted in philosophy, history, anthropology, sociology, etc. The student and scholar would do well to creatively interact with Ong's work.
		Walter Ong is evidently one of the 20th century's most learned men in the area of human thought and communication.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415281296?v=glance (1750 words)

	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Walter J. Ong, S.J.
		Walter J. Ong, S.J. Via George, I learned this morning that Walter J.
		When I first read Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in graduate school it was one of those books where the answers were kept: that is, it articulated a set of ideas I had instinctively believed were important, but which I had thus far lacked the vocabulary or thought structures to express.
		Update: I neglected to mention that Ong was a student of Marshall McLuhan when he did his master’s in English at St. Louis University.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~mgk/blog/archives/000135.html (249 words)

	Walter J. Ong on Orality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Walter J. Ong created the term "orality" in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, to describe oral "literacy" in terms that are not typographically and chirographically biassed -- that is, biassed towards the written or printed word as the sole iteration of linguistic and narrative sophistication.
		Ong describes how experience and understanding of experience depends upon one's medium for expression and communication.
		In literate cultures, for example, words may not carry the same power of action that they do in oral cultures -- they are a supplement to action.
	www.thecore.nus.edu /cpace/ht/knots/Ong.html (125 words)

	Dyck--Walter Ong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Walter Ong and the Movement from Orality to Literacy
		In Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter Ong argues that the major shift in human thinking lies between orality and literacy (a much more significant shift than those between scribal, print, and electronic forms of literacy).
		Thus, while the speaking of a word can never be repeated, but only imitated, the writing of a word becomes a relatively permanent thing, readable over and over again, with no change to the written word itself.
	www.cmu.ca /faculty/pdyck/old/ht11.htm (132 words)

	Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication
		As a writer/storyteller, I was captivated by this review of Ong's life-long endeavor to bring back the vocal word to the culture.
		Ong's acceptance of modern technology, such as TV, gives credence to his "ordinary language philosophy." The focus of Farrell's study, is the...
	www.doctorsbookstore.com /shop/asinsearch_1572732504.html (185 words)

	Machina Memorialis
		And speaking of Ong bibliographies, I heard a few days ago that Thomas Walsh's definitive Walter J. Ong Bibliography (put together using Ong's own files) is in the process of being put online.
		In February of 1990, Ong wrote a letter to Harvard University Press regarding his most recent book project, entitled Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization.
		MLA has accepted my panel "Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy at 25," which I hope will be the first of a series of 25th anniversary celebrations for the book.
	machinamemorialis.blogspot.com (3806 words)

	Walter J. Ong -- Orality and Literacy
		Only around Plato's time in ancient Greece, more than three centuries after the introduction of the Greek alphabet, was this stage transcended when writing was finally diffused through the Greek population and interiorized enough to affect thought proccsses generally (Havelock 1963).
		As the paradoxical relationships of orality and literacy in rhetoric and Learned Latin suggest, the transition from orality to literacy was slow (Ong 1967b, pp.
		English style in the Tudor period (Ong 1971, pp.23-47) and even much later carried heavy oral residue in its use of epithets, balance, antithesis, formulary structures, and commonplace materials.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~port/teach/relg/ong.html (3582 words)

	Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Walter Ong
		I too am interested in Walter Ong’s work in orality, so you’ll understand that I was delighted to find a website called “Remembering Walter Ong.” Among its many treasures, the site includes both a full-length lecture by Father Ong and an interview in which he explains how he sees himself and his work.
		To hear at last the voice of the man who thought and wrote so richly about the experience of orality is a very stirring thing indeed.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, December 23rd, 2004 at 11:40 am and is filed under General.
	www.gardnercampbell.net /blog1/index.php?p=91 (206 words)

	Walter J. Ongl \| Saint Louis University
		"Ong and (or versus) Derrida on Presence: A Case of a Conflict of Traditions," by John D. Schaeffer, Northern Illinois Univ.
		A conference celebrating the Jesuit gift of the Ong Archives to Saint Louis University is planned for April, 2005.
		Ong's works is being compiled and will be posted on this website.
	www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/ENG/ong (375 words)

	Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground: Weblog Review: Remembering Walter Ong
		Why I Like It: Remembering Walter Ong is a weblog designed by Jonathan Druy to commemorate the life and work of Walter J. Ong, S.J., who died August 12, 2003.
		Druy's weblog was set up just days after Ong's death to collect tributes to Ong by his friends, colleagues and former students.
		Ong's handwritten comment: "Nice specifics." The real compliment was when he read the paper out loud to the class, which was something I won't forget.
	www.legalunderground.com /2005/05/weblog_review_e.html (426 words)

	Walter J. Ong Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Profound changes in thought process and in personality and social structures were brought about by the invention of writing and the transformation from one stage of consciousness to another: from primary oral cultures to literate ones.
		Walter Ong here surveys and interprets the extensive work done during the last few decades, by himself and others,...
		This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Walter_J._Ong (494 words)

	Walter J. Ong Conference @ Saint Louis University, April 7-8, 2005 \| Kairosnews
		Walter J. Ong Conference @ Saint Louis University, April 7-8, 2005
		Walter J. Ong Conference @ Saint Louis University, April 7-8, 2005
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	Justin's Links: Extratextual Context
		For the last four weeks I have had another book at my side: Orality and Literacy, by Walter J. Ong.
		At that time I wondered if the easy textual fluidity encouraged by the internet might cause the development of variant grapholects - that is to say, if we might see that our written consciousness has been made more oral by immediate textual exchange technologies.
		Now I'm reading Ong again, watching to see how he describes and establishes evidence for the character of this oral-to-literate transformation, and wondering where video games fit in with this idea of media technology architecting thought.
	www.links.net /daze/03/05/05/extratextual_context.html (703 words)

	John Paul Walter \| Scholarship \| Ong \| Ong Bibliography, Long
		A comprehensive but not exaustive bibliography of Walter J. Ong's publications on oral-written-print-electronic contrasts.
		While sometimes read as a defense of Thomas J. Farrell's “Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz” (College English 38 (1977): 443-59), I would suggest that this response that seeks to serve as a corrective to both Farrell and Farrell's critics.
		Swearingen, C. Jan. “On Photographic 'Literacy': An Interview with Walter J. Ong.” Exposure 23.4 (1985): 19-27.
	www.jpwalter.com /scholarship/Ong/ongbiblong.html (1191 words)

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