Word Processors - Class Blog

Oral cultures: always "referred to as socialized communication" (Heim, 113).

What benefits do preliterate cultures experience that literate cultures cannot?

How do word processors have an effect on our oral and literate culture?

I believe that oral cultures were able to experience much more intimate communication. Within a literate culture, the personal interaction does not occur as often. I also believe that the memories existing in an oral culture are much more able to retain information than in a literate culture. Because everything had to be passed along verbally, the information had to be memorized. Now, in a literate culture, we do not have to remember anything, it can just be written down.