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Author Baron, Naomi S.

Title Always on : language in an online and mobile world / Naomi S. Baron
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations
Contents Email to your brain: language in an online and mobile world -- Language online: the basics -- Controlling the volume: everyone a language czar -- Are instant messages speech?: the world of IM -- My best day: managing "buddies" and "friends" -- Having your say: blogs and beyond -- Going mobile: cell phones in context -- "Whatever": is the internet destroying language? -- Gresham's ghost: challenges to written culture -- The people we become: the cost of being always on
Summary "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 we are becoming, as individuals and as family members or friends, if the relationships we form must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media."--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index
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SUBJECT Atarazanas Valencia gnd
Subject Language and languages.
Instant messaging.
Internet.
Internet
Language
languages (study discipline)
language (general communication)
Internet.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
Instant messaging
Internet
Language and languages
Sprache
Neue Medien
Instant Messaging
Kommunikation
Internet
Taal.
Online-systemen.
Draadloze communicatie.
Internet.
SMS (telefonie)
Elektronische Medien -- Sprache.
Elektronische Medien -- Kommunikation.
Sprache -- Elektronische Medien.
Kommunikation -- Elektronische Medien.
Mobile Telekommunikation.
Computerunterstützte Kommunikation.
Digitale Medien.
Instant Messaging.
Sprache.
New media -- Language.
Text messages (Mobile phones)
Communication -- New technologies.
Electronic communication.
Language of the web.
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
Interpersonal communication.
Communication and technology.
Language and languages.
Instant messaging.
Internet.
Cell phone systems.
Internet -- langage -- influence reçue.
langage -- influence reçue -- réalité virtuelle (informatique)
langage -- influence reçue -- système en ligne.
Språk.
Internet.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
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