Julie Nelson The Cultural Impact Of Literacy

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There are other impacts of literacy which are mentioned by Julie Nelson in her article entitled The Cultural Impact of Literacy in 1999. The first impact is on the memory which is an important part of communication. In a literate society, according to Nelson (1999), literacy makes the use of memory unessential because the information that the society needed is put in paper, unlike in the oral society. Literacy makes the speaker cannot control the text but the text is now controlling the speaker because the memorization is already in a written form and the creativity turn into obsolete. The creativity and the concept of memorization are affected by literacy just like Ong’s explanation about the effect of reading and writing to the mind of the