Im Podcast „All We Mean“, einer mit dem New Books Network assoziierten Podcast-Reihe unter dem Motto „an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why“, sprach Daniel Shea im Februar 2024 mit Bill Cope und Mary Kalantzis von der University of Illinois:
In this episode […], our topic is This is what language means.
It is text, and it is speech — but is not the two wholly as one. It is speech, and then it is text, or it is the other way around — but the two cannot be one, because between them opens a gulf of difference: Text is the one extreme — the other end of which is Speech.
And neither makes — nor the two together can make what the digital is for us today. We read images as much as we do print. Music and sounds are louder than speech in many regions of the online. Video brings movement to life, while the moving body or the object in motion makes space visible. All this is called virtual reality for good reason. We call it all the cyber-social.