The concept of oral media

Abstract

The oral field in the lives of societies is witnessing many important developments, because of which orality has become the subject of various studies, especially studies that have taken linguistic approaches or those related to audio and visual images or those related to spoken or written language. Orality can maintain its characteristics in light of technology and modern media, which feed on achieving the greatest possible level of communication. If oral history is the collection and study of important events and historical information about individuals and families or daily life using audio or video recordings as well as interview transcripts, then oral media is the way to successfully transfer knowledge and human communication to broader and more spacious ranges. Oral history seeks to obtain information from different points of view, more than what can be found in written sources. It also refers to information collected by the method into a written work (published or unpublished) based on this data, often preserved in archives and large libraries.