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Is our society becoming post-literate

Date Submitted: 07/04/2004 08:50:55
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 9 pages (2350 words)
Views: 36556

Is our society becoming post-literate? Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the alphabet was invented and it has been suggested that we have moved beyond a stage of basic literacy into a new kind of 'post-literacy' or 'secondary …

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