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A media form Jiang describes as passive, self-enclosed, information-rich, and universal.
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visual culture
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and preeminence in in you know common culture right so um digital culture it's a really um complex topic my issue with digital culture..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and preeminence in in you know common culture right so um digital culture it's a really um complex topic my issue with digital culture..."
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Visual culture is passive and self-enclosed compared with oral and literary culture, though it gains informational density and universality.
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Jiang argues that oral culture and literature require more active imaginative participation than digital visual culture, where much of the meaning is already embedded in the image itself.
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"and preeminence in in you know common culture right so um digital culture it's a really um complex topic my issue with digital culture..."
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"...to understand is that it's passive. Both in literary and oral culture you have to participate. You have to use your imagination to make..."
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"...i loved your analysis of a comparison of oral written and visual cultures and i'm curious if you have any hints on how that..."
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"...soul if you think about it. Let's contrast this with literary culture. In literary culture reading and writing you have to do it by..."
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"Right? So this is the oral tradition in contrast with literary culture and visual culture. The oral tradition is extremely complex. We tend to..."
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"...what you'll find is it's not because we've switched from oral culture to visual culture. The same is true if it's your birthday okay..."
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"...sanctimonious. It focuses on what is good and evil. Whereas pagan culture is like whether it's interesting or not interesting. Whether it's memorable or..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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