Digital Orality Replaces Literate Truth

Digital media’s immersive, in‑the‑moment interactions are restoring an oral style of truth‑making where consensus emerges from immediate, social feedback (likes, shares, network referendums) rather than fixed, literate argumentation. That shifts epistemic authority from abstract principles and institutions toward networked tribes that validate claims by resonance and visibility. — If true, the shift undermines shared factual baselines, makes persuasion more performative, and changes how policy, journalism, and law must engage public truth claims.