Digital Media and Information in Society/Conversations/Orality

Collaborative converstions between students and chatGPT about Orality edit

Is social media more oral than written? I don't think so edit

In our collaborative conversation, ChatGPT suggested that social media exhibits

some characteristics of orality due to its real-time nature and conversational style. Social media platforms often facilitate quick exchanges of information, similar to face-to-face conversations in oral cultures. However, social media is primarily a written medium, as the information is typically conveyed through text, images, and videos, rather than solely through spoken words. Therefore, while it may embrace some oral-like features, it remains essentially a written form of communication.

I'm not sure I agree with this. I think social media is much more oral than written. It may be circumstantial: perhaps some type of social media, that is immediate, is oral. And others that are more delayed are written? I guess we will see. (edited at 11:36am)

Poly-student-steve 15:24, 6 August 2023 (UTC)


Evaluated the wikipedia page for my hometown, Cherry Valley NY edit

Poly-student-steve (discusscontribs)


20 July 2023: Hello, world! edit

Hi. This is my first journal entry in my Wikiversity journal, where I will chronicle my work in this class, and post my critical reflections. So far today, I've created my user account, joined the class and looked at the dashboard, and figured out how to create a journal page in Wikiversity. I would like to figure out a way to put the date in the header, and make this a blog post kind of page.

What is orality? edit

Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population. The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition. The term "orality" has been used in a variety of ways, often to describe, in a generalised fashion, the structures of consciousness found in cultures that do not employ, or employ minimally, the technologies of writing.[1]


Collaborations between students and ChatGPT about orality edit

How to submit your collaboration edit

Digital Media and Information in Society/Student Journals/poly-student-steve/

Inserting a transclusion of a section of a conversation journal page into a conversation page edit

  • Create a section in student journal with a name that matches the conversation. For example, if you are commenting on Orality on September 10, 2023, create two new paragraphs in your journal page: one styled as Heading 2 with the date, and one styled Heading 3 with the word matching the title of the conversation page, in this case, Orality. You can also copy/paste the code below in the code box, and use edit source instead of edit.
= 10 Sep 2023 ==
=== Orality ===
My comments about talking with chatGPT about orality, with a link to the chatGPT conversation https://chat.openai.com/share/ebbff0a5-57f7-44d5-a2ae-1bc48e19b6b1
  • Add the following to the conversation page (in this example, to Orality:

~~~ {{#lsth:Digital_Media_and_Information_in_Society/Student_Journals/poly-student-steve|Orality}} (including the three ~~~ to start the line, to generate this output:

Stevesuny (discusscontribs) Digital Media and Information in Society/Student Journals/poly-student-steve

Collaborative Conversations transcluded from student journals edit

student journal raw link: https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Media_and_Information_in_Society/Student_Journals/poly-student-steve

internal transclusion of the page, enclosed in curly braces Template:Digital Media and Information in Society/Student Journals/poly-student-steve

internal link of the page, enclosed in square brackets Digital_Media_and_Information_in_Society/Student_Journals/poly-student-steve

internal link to a section Digital_Media_and_Information_in_Society/Student_Journals/poly-student-steve#Orality

internal transclusion of a section, enclosed in curly braces Digital Media and Information in Society/Student Journals/poly-student-steve

References edit

  1. "Orality". Wikipedia. 2022-11-11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orality&oldid=1121298202.