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Beschreibung
Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture.
Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture.
Über den Autor
Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. A leading authority on language use in the age of the computer, she has studied instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, multitasking behavior, and Facebook usage by American college students. She is the author of six books, including Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading, and she has been interviewed on Good Morning America, 20/20, Fox 5, CNN, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1.: Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World

  • 2.: Language Online: The Basics

  • 3.: Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar

  • 4.: Are Instant Messages Speech? The World of IM

  • 5.: My Best Day: Managing "Buddies" and "Friends"

  • 6.: Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond

  • 7.: Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context

  • 8.: "Whatever": Is the Internet Destroying Language?

  • 9.: Gresham's Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture

  • 10.: The People We Become: Costs of Being Always On

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199735440
ISBN-10: 0199735441
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baron, Naomi S.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Naomi S. Baron
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.03.2010
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
Artikel-ID: 120666379