As technology grow and increasingly gets bigger and and better people are finding new ways to harness that information and use it to their advantage and learn from it. Clive Thompson suggests that technology is even helping literacy and this young generation. He states that “Young people write far more than any generation before them”(Source 7). You can thank Twitter and Facebook for the mass amount of posts and writing from teens. Thompson followingly says that “students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos - addressing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.(Source 7)
Researchers have found that an overwhelming amount of young people have an online presence. In society today, technology is becoming more and more accessible no matter what age. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “Taking Multitasking to Task” by Mark Harris, both authors portray the idea of technology ruling the lives of generations to come. Harris’s opinion on technology taking over is correct because more and more people at younger and younger ages are dependent upon it.
utilizes rhetorical questions and simplistic repetition in her writing to show the connection between reading and writing in any piece of material, whether that be on the web or in a physical book. She argues the fact that what we involve ourselves in on the computer or any electronic device require some form of reading. By using rhetorical questions, such as “How much of anything can you do in the e-world without reading?” (Le Guin 158), she effectively draws attention to the audience’s thoughts about the subject. By posing rhetorical questions and drawing on relative facts to convey to the audience, Guin demonstrates her ability to be a persuasive writer by influencing how the audience sees the effects on society between both forms of literature.
Both Cristina Nehring and Sherman Alexie recognize that reading can be lucrative activity. However, Nehring and Alexie differ on why, and in what circumstances, reading is a beneficial investment of time. Nehring’s article faults society for exaggerating the intellectual advantage of casual reading. She writes that there are “two very different ways to use books”, with one-way superior to the other.
My reflection on the article is that there has been a big drop in how much teens read for pleasure. I also think that there are many platforms online that we can read from and that we don’t always have to read off a book. Technology is an advantage if you use it the right way such as, doing research or reading books
Looking back at Boyd’s overall argument, she believes that people must learn and develop skills to become digitally literate which enables them to understand the programs that went into building all the electronic device that people use on a daily basis. She was able to give the reader a variety of sub-claims and evidence to support her argument. She wants other to know how important digital literacy is and how it effectively changes the way you think and process information from the internet. Boyd was able to show the readers how complicated technology can be and how people can carelessly trust what shows up on their screen. She broaden the view of many people, in addition, the sample of other author’s view on digital literacy has given more
The cost to produce millions of copies of books compared to digital distribution shows how much an another or publisher can save. In a smaller scale, a teacher can print off copies of an article for their students to read for homework, or they could give them the link to read it on a computer or phone. With these changes, there has been very many studies and debates about the benefits and disadvantages of reading text from a paper source compared to digital sources. This source by Ferris Jabr discusses the science behind the arguments in an understandable and knowledgeable way. Jabr successfully employs good sources to backup the several points of analysis in his
I enjoyed reading your article, “The Death of the book”. The title of your article is very intriguing. I would like to assure you that reading isn't obsolete nor is the reader dead. Although, technology is forever changing, the e-world will never take away the want to read, it just gives people options on how they would like to read. Technology is unique, but for some older and a few younger folk would like a paper back over a kindle.
In chapter 5 “A Medium of the Most General Nature,” the author illustrates the recent phenomena that the time of reading print materials for people to spend is decreasing as Net use grows. People are devoting less time to read the print texts (Carr 87). More people turn to reading online to obtain the instant information or academic knowledge. It seems like a popular lifestyle in people’s life to reading online instead of reading the printed material.
