Digital Media Effects on Conventional Reading and Writing Practices

"We type far more than we used to and are producing massive amounts of text compared to what we used to write,” Baron says. “And because of the amount of writing we are doing, we tend to devalue what we write. How much do we edit or care about what we post online to god knows whom? How much are we making sure to represent ourselves carefully?"

 

I cannot say how valid this segment from the text is-- we write so much in today's society, on the internet, at work, texting, etc.. do we really pay THAT much attention to what we are saying or how we may be coming across. Are we making sense?

 

I am 50/50 on the stance between web evangelist and traditionalist. I think that we need to embrace the new technology and the 'reading' that comes with it, however, my mom was a former English teacher and now editor of a newspaper has had me reading books since I can remember. I proof read text messages (that don't need to be) sometimes out of habit-- annoying!

In the article written by Karp, it was stated that writing cent be necessarily good or bad, but depends on 'an old concept; audience'. How we read of write depends on who we are reading or writing to. I think I can be as informal as I want when texting to a friend and then change it up for a teem paper.

On the more traditional side of things,  I believe in reading a nice printed book. I do agree with the Literacy Debate article which mentioned that there are many distractions on the internet that can take away from any reading students are doing.

 

 

 

This visual metaphor symbolizes my view of really not being able to 'pick' a side of web evangelism or traditionalist. I think both have positive things about them and also some draw backs when comparing them to each other.