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Oral Tradition and the Internet
Pathways of the Mind
by John Miles Foley

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• Awards: Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology (2014)
• Language: english
• Release date: August 2, 2012
• Author: John Miles Foley
• ISBN: 9780252037184 (0252037189)
• Genres: anthropology
• Format: hardcover, 312 pages
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press

About The Book

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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