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Article: "Literacy and Text Messaging: How will the next generation
12:08 PM EST 12/21/06
I am not really sure what thread this should go under, but I'll try here. If anyone else has a better suggestion, please let me know. Thanks.
Article: "Literacy and Text Messaging: How will the next generation
read and write?" By Kate Baggott, Technology Review, Thursday,
December 21, 2006 --
http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/17927/page1/
From the article:
"In the age of text messaging, where words are reduced to nonstandard
abbreviations and symbols, many people question the future of
literacy.
But experts point out that, in fact, technology has put new emphasis
on reading and writing."
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Re: Article: "Literacy and Text Messaging: How will the next generation
1:21 PM EST 12/21/06
as a reply to Ross Riker.
I'm not sure where I'd put this topic either, but this works fine! For libraries, it relates to patron training around "information literacy" (an evolving term), but it's all getting redefined in big ways by the new social networking tools.
"In coming years literacy will mean knowing how to choose between print, image, video, sound, and all the potential combinations they could create to make a particular point with a specific audience ..."
Fascinating stuff! Even if language gets streamlined into abbreviations and symbols, the cognitive demands in this multi-media world are stumulating in new ways.
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Re: Article: "Literacy and Text Messaging: How will the next generation
1:31 PM EST 12/21/06
as a reply to Ross Riker.
Nice link. Thank you!
I'm sure that social software has multiple influences/effects here ... but so do more traditional forms, including reading/writing (but also including such modern forms of rhetoric as the website, the podcast or even that horror of horrors the PowerPoint presentation).
I tend to think any form of communication is a big plus for libraries ... it provides us with a literate audience (though maybe literate in ways to which we're not accustomed). It surely beats an illiterate audience.
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