Robertk Logan News Today

Article: Thomas J. Farrell on Walter J. Ong, S.J. (REVIEW ESSAY) - For my 600th OEN article, I am writing to call your attention to my three articles and six reviews in the new issue of the online journal New Explorations. In my nine selections, I highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).

Adam Gopnik reviews some of the books that celebrate or censure the Internet, and considers what omnipresent information is doing to our minds.

Attributing these disputes to the discipline’s infancy is easy. But doing so ignores the fact that the definition of “information” was also once hotly contested. The reasons why pose lessons for countering the spread of falsehood at scale.