Digital Technology and the Kabyle Folk Tale: Contributions and Exogenous Influences on Amazigh Oral Heritage

Abstract

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the digital turn has transformed the ways in which oral cultures are produced, circulated, and transmitted. This transformation goes beyond the introduction of a new medium; it represents a significant epistemological and sociocultural shift. Cultures grounded in oral performance and collective memory are increasingly confronted with automated and globalized tools that disrupt traditional mechanisms of transmission. Orality, as described by Walter Ong, constitutes a distinct mode of thought and expression that differs from writing. Today, it is mediated by technologies that record it, disseminate it on a wide scale, and ultimately transform it.