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 ...

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199779802

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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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 do we become, as individuals and as family members or friends, if the relationships we form must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media? Our 300-year-old written culture is on the verge of redefinition, Baron notes. It's up to us to determine how and when we use language technologies, and to weigh the personal and social benefits--and costs--of being "always on." This engaging and lucidly-crafted book gives us the tools for taking on these challenges.

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 ...

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0199735441

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 304

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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 do we become, as individuals and as family members or friends, if the relationships we form must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media? Our 300-year-old written culture is on the verge of redefinition, Baron notes. It's up to us to determine how and when we use language technologies, and to weigh the personal and social benefits--and costs--of being "always on." This engaging and lucidly-crafted book gives us the tools for taking on these challenges.

Always on: Language in an online and mobile world. New York: Oxford University Press. Baym, N. (1995). The emergence of community in computer-mediated communication. In S. Jones (Ed.), Cybersociety: Computer-mediated communication and ...

Author: Jeremy Hunsinger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781402097898

Category: Computers

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Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences, humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to investigate the social and political changes related to the internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics, disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws, borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship, the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research, making internet research better for all. These ‘limits,’ challenges that constrain the theoretically limitless space for internet research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the ?eld and provide us with a particular topography that enables research and investigation.

Online können sich Leser vernetzen, bestehende literarische Welten durch Fan-Fiction erweitern oder das Gespräch mit Autoren suchen. Der aktive »Prosumer« tritt neben den stillen Rezipienten.

Author: Sebastian Böck

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH

ISBN: 9783847107453

Category: Reading

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Die Digitalisierung beeinflusst das Lesen und den Leser: Elektronische Lesegeräte verändern die Medialität des Lektürevorganges und die damit verbundenen Praktiken. Online können sich Leser vernetzen, bestehende literarische Welten durch Fan-Fiction erweitern oder das Gespräch mit Autoren suchen. Der aktive »Prosumer« tritt neben den stillen Rezipienten. Diese Entwicklungen wirken sich auch auf den Buchmarkt aus: Online-Versandhändler etablieren sich als Orte literarischer Anschlusskommunikation, Kundenrezensionen und Leseblogs gewinnen gegenüber dem Feuilleton als literaturkritische Institutionen an Bedeutung. Dieser interdisziplinäre Band analysiert diese Phänomene und beschreibt, wie sich Rezeptionsprozesse in der digitalen Gegenwart gestalten.

In her tour through the new world of eReading, Baron weights the value of reading physical print versus online text, including the question of what long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if we go overwhelmingly digital.

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780199315765

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Users are easily distracted by other temptations on their devices, multitasking is rampant, and screens coax us to skim rather than read in-depth. What is more, if the way we read is changing, so is the way we write. In response to changing reading habits, many authors and publishers are producing shorter works and ones that don't require reflection or close reading. In her tour through the new world of eReading, Baron weights the value of reading physical print versus online text, including the question of what long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if we go overwhelmingly digital. She also probes how the internet is shifting reading from being a solitary experience to a social one, and the reasons why eReading has taken off in some countries, especially the United States and United Kingdom, but not others, like France and Japan.

Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. New York: Oxford University Press. Baskerville, R., & Sainsbury, R. (2005). Securing against the possibility of an improbable event: Concepts for managing predictable threats and normal ...

Author: Bajgoric, Nijaz

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781522537052

Category: Business & Economics

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Continuous improvements in digitized practices have created opportunities for businesses to develop more streamlined processes. This not only leads to higher success in day-to-day production, but it increases the overall success of businesses. Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations is a critical scholarly resource that examines how EIS implementations support business processes and facilitate this in today’s e-business environment. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as customer relations management, supply chain management, and business intelligence, this book is geared towards professionals, researchers, managers, consultants, and university students interested in emerging developments for business process management.

Baron, Naomi S. (2008), Always on: language in an online and mobile world, Oxford. Biber, Douglas;Johansson, Stig; Leech, Geoffrey; Conrad, Susan; Finegan, Edward (1999), The Longman grammar ofspoken and written English, London.

Author: Jana Klawitter

Publisher: Campus Verlag

ISBN: 9783593395951

Category: Social Science

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Die digitalen Medien verändern unsere Lese- und Schreibgewohnheiten sowie die Art, wie wir recherchieren und archivieren. Um auch computer- und internetbezogene Phänomene erforschen zu können, müssen die Kulturwissenschaften ihre Fragestellungen und ihr methodisches Spektrum stetig weiterentwickeln. Die Verbindung von digitalen und nicht-digitalen Verfahren spielt dabei eine besondere Rolle. Der Band bietet exemplarische Einblicke in Forschungen zu kommunikativen Kulturtechniken aus sprach-, didaktik- und geschichtsbezogenen Disziplinen der Kulturwissenschaften.

The book then crucially connects research insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video.

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190084110

Category: Education

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An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats. In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key challenges--from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading for critical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. The book then crucially connects research insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video. Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that.

Eric Hoover, “The Millennial Muddle,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2009, online download. 3. ... Naomi S. Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 169, 170. 15.

Author: Mark Howard Moss

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9780739169889

Category: Education

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Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of new technology. Students now have access to myriad of technologies that instead of supplementing the educational process, have actually taken it over. Faculty who do not adapt face enormous obstacles, and those who do adapt run the risk of eroding the integrity of what they have been trained to teach. Moss discusses that it is now not only how we learn, but what we continue to teach, and how that enormously important legacy is protected.

Naomi Baron , Always On : Language in an Online and Mobile World ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2008 ) , 48 . 70. Baron , Always On , 7. For more on plural and World Englishes , see Kingsley Bolton and Braj B. Kachru , World ...

Author: Hannah Zeavin

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 9780262045926

Category: Psychology

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Psychotherapy across distance and time, from Freud’s treatments by mail to crisis hotlines, radio call-ins, chatbots, and Zoom sessions. Therapy has long understood itself as taking place in a room, with two (or more) people engaged in person-to-person conversation. And yet, starting with Freud’s treatments by mail, psychotherapy has operated through multiple communication technologies and media. These have included advice columns, radio broadcasts, crisis hotlines, video, personal computers, and mobile phones; the therapists (broadly defined) can be professional or untrained, strangers or chatbots. In The Distance Cure, Hannah Zeavin proposes a reconfiguration of the traditional therapeutic dyad of therapist and patient as a triad: therapist, patient, and communication technology. Zeavin tracks the history of teletherapy (understood as a therapeutic interaction over distance) and its metamorphosis from a model of cure to one of contingent help. She describes its initial use in ongoing care, its role in crisis intervention and symptom management, and our pandemic-mandated reliance on regular Zoom sessions. Her account of the “distanced intimacy” of the therapeutic relationship offers a powerful rejoinder to the notion that contact across distance (or screens) is always less useful, or useless, to the person seeking therapeutic treatment or connection. At the same time, these modes of care can quickly become a backdoor for surveillance and disrupt ethical standards important to the therapeutic relationship. The history of the conventional therapeutic scenario cannot be told in isolation from its shadow form, teletherapy. Therapy, Zeavin tells us, was never just a “talking cure”; it has always been a communication cure.