Innis and Ong: on orality and space-bias media - Caraline MacDonald

 




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  1. Chloe CameronFebruary 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM

    Hi Caraline! Your mention of mass communication across a global scale in regards to Ong's theory of orality and literacy encouraged me to consider how mass media platforms today are able to perform thanks to algorithmic coding. Like you highlighted, the long-distance communication as an example of space-bias according to Innis, and can be communicated globally. TikTok was the first contemporary platform that I thought of like this. A conversation in my CS353: Internet Studies also discussed algorithms similar to a virus the way that we see it in PontyPool. Glad I could connect these two classes.

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