Bernhard Schieber

Secondary Orality

Knowledge

Secondary orality brings mediated speech into systems built on literacy. A podcast, broadcast, or voice exchange may feel immediate while relying on written prompts, metadata, and archives. Examining those dependencies reveals how spoken presence combines with persistence and institutional control rather than replacing writing.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

Editorial orientation · Category

Theories & Explanatory Models

Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.

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