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Lädt ... Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008. Auflage)von Naomi S. Baron
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An excellent study on the impact of our constant connection via communications technology. Though a linguist by trade, Baron presents a comprehensive study of the issue. It would be difficult to read this book and not be convinced that new media technology is fundamentally changing the way we relate to one another in the world today. Zeige 2 von 2
Speed, ultimately, is Baron's deep concern. If you pick up the pace at which it's possible to write and read—and at which it's considered normal to write and read—do you inherently damage the processes? Has hastening the rate at which writers create text undermined the attributes of written culture, especially the cognitive depth that writing and reading can bestow? She fears so.
In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis--are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing. Electronic media has magnified the laid-back "whatever" attitude toward formal writing that young people everywhere have embraced, but it is not a cause of it. A more troubling trend, according to Baron, is the myriad ways in which we block incoming IMs, camouflage ourselves on Facebook, and use ring tones or caller ID to screen incoming calls on our mobile phones. Our ability to decide who to talk to, she argues, is likely to be among the most lasting influences that information technology has upon the ways we communicate with one another. Moreover, as more and more people are "always on" one technology or another--whether communicating, working, or just surfing the web or playing games--we have to ask what kind of people do we become, as individuals and as family members or friends, if the relationships we form must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media? Our 300-year-old written culture is on the verge of redefinition, Baron notes. It's up to us to determine how and when we use language technologies, and to weigh the personal and social benefits--and costs--of being "always on." This engaging and lucidly-crafted book gives us the tools for taking on these challenges. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Will the English language survive our text and tweet linguistic innovations? Naomi Baron says, yes, mostly. Always On reports on an intriguing experiment. Baron collected months of online posts by a group of college students and analyzed them for acronyms and other linguistic features. She may have expected more nonstandard language than she found. She concludes that the English sentence will survive our new short-form communication. That is refreshing to hear. Is the book especially well written? Not really. The research was already four-years old when the book was published. It would be fun to see a second edition with fresh data, but I doubt that will happen. 4 stars, and still worth a look. ( )