Oral tradition and the internet : pathways of the mind / John Miles Foley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, John Miles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore and the Internet.

Oral tradition--Computer network resources.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title illustrates and explains the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252094309

0252094301

9781283992565

1283992566

OCLC:

867784841