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. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on "What?" but on "How do I get there?" In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it's pathways—not things—that matter. 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. Doing nothing less fundamental than
challenging the default medium of the linear book and page and all that they entail, Oral Tradition and the Internet shows readers that there are large, complex, wholly viable, alternative
worlds of media-technology out there—if only they are willing to explore, to think outside the usual, culturally constructed categories. 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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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
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
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
| "This workadds a decisive and stunning new dimension to John Miles Foley's already distinguished contributions to the study of oral traditions—ancient, medieval, and modern. His demonstration that they share significant features with the composition and communication of cultural production deploying digital technology and the internet will provoke a major upheaval in the study of long-term media history."
—Thomas Pettitt, coeditor of The Ballad As Narrative: Studies in the Ballad Tradition of England, Scotland, Germany, and Denmark
"Oral Tradition and the Internet is a stunningly ambitious and highly provocative multi-platform project in which John Miles Foley invites the reader to join him on a fascinating and compelling exploration of the interconnected architectonics of the human mind and the Internet. Wide-ranging, challenging, and intellectually rich, it will have an enormous and revolutionary...

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Foley, John Miles

University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2012

United States, United States of America

Urbana, IL, Illinois, 2012

Urbana, IL, cop. 2012

Urbana, 2017

9, 20120816

2012 aug 01

2012-08-01

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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