Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World by Naomi Baron (English) Hardc

by Naomi Baron

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Always On by Naomi Baron In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies mdash;including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, , blogs, and wikis mdash;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 quot;whatever quot; attitude towardformal 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 , and use ring tones or caller ID to screen incoming calls on our mobile phones. Ourability 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 quot;always on quot; one technology or another mdash;whether communicating, working, or just surfingthe web or playing games mdash;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 t

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780195313055
• Condition: Fine

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