| Oral Tradition
| Literacy
| A Second Orality
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| Collective
| Individual
| Connective
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| A Live Wire
| A Closed Circuit
| A Power Station
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| Personally experienced
| 'Objective' (distanced, reflected)
| Consensus and contingency
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| Synchronous
| Asynchronous
| Distributed presence
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| Persuasion through presence (intrinsic and peer authority)
| Persuasion through logic and scientific method (external authority)
| Persuasion through resilience and resonance (collective authority)
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| Authority through relationship
| Authority through citation
| Authority through continuing interaction and resilience
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| Improvisational Presentation/Performance
| "Complete" Authorship
| Improvisational Content (mixed media, re-purposing, expansion)
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| Originality Through the Telling
| Originality through Precise Description
| Originality in Presentation and Participation
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| Stewardship
| Ownership
| Collaborative sense-making
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| Associative
| Hierarchical (Taxonomic)
| Folksonomic
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| Shared Narrative
| Analysis
| Discovery and Personal Narrative
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| Clustered
| Linear
| Hypertextual
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| Permutative
| Unified, Codified, Static ('Complete' and Reproducible)
| Connected and Generative
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| Accumulation and Layering
| Replication and Reproduction
| Accretion and Organic Growth
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| Knowing what you can
| Knowing what you need
| Knowing enough
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| At the Time
| Ahead of Time
| Just in Time
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| Memorizing Stories
| Preparing Reproducible Stories
| Improvising Stories
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| Transmission
| Manipulation (identification and categorization)
| Participation (process and production)
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| Immediate Memory
| Local Storage
| Network Storage (access)
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| Technology as Necessity
| Technology as Application
| Technology as Environment
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| Proximal
| Local
| Global
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