| Summary: | This thesis is an investigation into some of the effects upon 1) ancient Greece as it shifted
from a preliterate to a literate society; and upon 2) North America as it shifts from a primarily
literate culture to one which relies upon electronic media (a mixture of literacy and prality which
incorporates both but in the final analysis is neither). Because of the breadth of the topic I have
created three chapters which are meant to stand on their own (each with its own bibliography).
Even though this is a progressive (nonlinear) investigation which spends little time attempting to
draw conclusions, the theme of (r)evolutions in communications unite the tangents of inquiry
which comprise this project. The twentieth century has produced epistemological, sociocultural,
and, with the help of the evolution of electronic media, communications revolutions at least as
jarring as those of fifth and sixth century B C E Greece. It is between these two (r)evolutionary
periods that I draw parallels. The fundamental ideas behind the communication (r)evolution in
ancient Greece, the shift from a preliterate to a literate society, is known to many. But what is of
known of the epistemological, sociocultural, and cognitive changes coinciding with these shifts?
It is these past transformations I hope illuminate so that we might better understand through
comparison, the implications of the complex revolutions in communication we are in the midst
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