Text and performance are viewed, in this essay, as media‐dependent. Noting that the encoding features of a text can function as generative, rather than derived, social acts, a media perspective is outlined and employed to distinguish oral, literate, and electronic modes of communication. Narration is employed as the extended example to illustrate the ways in which the nature of a medium governs experiences with and understandings of communicative forms.
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