Of That Which We Cannot Write: Some Notes On The Phenomenology Of Media
Abstract
The advent of electronic media has fostered recognition of a deterministic relationship among media and communicative behavior: what we communicate about, how we communicate about it, and why we do are all bound up in the nature of the media we use to do so. This essay surveys these three issues across oral, literate, and video media to suggest how literate biases may hinder our mastery of oral and video media. Two critical examples of contemporary rhetoric are presented to illustrate the case. Much of the current difficulty can be eased, it is argued, through distinguishing oral literacy, video literacy, and video orality. Of special interest are the ways in which literacy inhibits the contemporary use, teaching, and study of rhetoric in speech and video. © 1988 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Recommended Citation
Haynes, W. L. (1988). Of That Which We Cannot Write: Some Notes On The Phenomenology Of Media. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 74(1), pp. 71-101. National Communication Association; Taylor and Francis Group; Routledge.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638809383829
Department(s)
Arts, Languages, and Philosophy
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1479-5779; 0033-5630
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
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text
Language(s)
English
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© 2023 National Communication Association; Taylor and Francis Group; Routledge, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 1988
Comments
University of Missouri, Grant None