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the strong version of the great-divide thesis
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“The strong version of the great-divide thesis — Goody & Watt's "The Consequences of Literacy" (*Comparative Studies in Society and History*, 1963), Havelock's *Preface to Plato* (1963), McLuhan's *Gutenberg Galaxy* (1962), and Ong's *Orality and Literacy* (1982)”
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Ong discussed the cultural/cognitive consequences of typography in 1982
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“Ong (1982) for the cultural/cognitive consequences of typography”
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Ong wrote about secondary orality in the context of radio and television.
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“Ong wrote when the paradigmatic secondary-orality technologies were radio and television”
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Disputed
"a fourth category beyond primary/residual/secondary orality is needed"
Asserted by Ong · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"A fourth category beyond primary/residual/secondary orality is needed"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"heavy literacy training cognitively suppresses or devalues the oral channel"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"highly literate adults have difficulty recovering primary-oral mental habits"
Asserted by Ong · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Undated
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Publication of Ong's Orality and Literacy