HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marshall Mcluhan, Religious Text, Oral Tradition

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1780
• Professor: Steven Bailey

Document Summary

That"s a way we look at te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology (cid:894)(cid:373)edia e(cid:272)ology(cid:895) Marshal mcluhan: canadian, philosopher, changes in media produce changes in human behavior. Stages of ict development/media ecologies: oral culture. Repetition is common: a device for memory facilizing, when i ask you alphabet you will reply with the rhythm you memorized. Concrete discourse: abstraction is very difficult without writing it down. Traditional/incremental: you cannot have revolutionary changes. Personal/charismatic: you can give information with someone who is right beside you, every conversation was personal conversation. Individualistic to a greater extent: communication with a person being there, read or write on their own. Enriched inner conversation: because you can experience things privately, when literacy come people brain and way of thinking changes inner voice. Sacred books: people of the book refer to muslims and others who share, comes of development culture, individual region experiences with a book, religious text. The library/ archive is essential: idea of central and large place of knowledge, having archives.