Information Technology Reference
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Reddy, Michael J. (1993). The conduit metaphor: a case of frame conflict in our language
about language. In A. Ortony (Ed.),
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Yates, Frances A. (1966).
The art of memory
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Media studies
From literary theory we broadened our focus to examine scholarly studies of
other media technologies, such as film and television. Walter Ong's work deals
with the oldest communication technology, writing, and the sharp distinc-
tion it generates between oral and literate cultures, and was quite important
for us in understanding new hybrid media like MUDs that combine elements
of the oral and the written. David Bordwell's topic introduces the narrative
language developed in the relatively short history of film. Scott McCloud's
work is a masterful comic topic about comic art that uses techniques of se-
quential visual representation to explain sequential visual representation. Jenk-
ins debunks the commonly-held image of the passive television viewer, while
McLuhan's sweeping and prophetic work practically invented the information
age now coming to pass.
Bordwell, David (1985).
Narration in the fiction film
. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press.
Jenkins, Henry (1992).
Te x t ua l po a c h e r s : Te l e v i s i on f an s
&
participatory culture
.NewYork:
Routledge.
McLuhan, Marshall (1964).
Understanding media: The extensions of man
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McGraw-Hill.
McCloud,
Scott
(1993).
Understanding
comics: The
invisible art
.
Northampton,
Massachusetts: Tundra.
Ong, Walter J. (1982).
Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word
. London: Methuen.
Narrative in psychology and sociology
There have been threads of work in psychology and sociology that center
around narrative. Bartlett's view of memory as imaginative reconstruction of
events was helpful to us in trying to break away from more static views of
mental representation. Nelson's work on children's monologues showed how
this reconstruction could take the form of oral self-narratives. These and other
works helped sharpen for us the central role of narrative in the construction of
the individual and of society.
