Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 3 views
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The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.
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So... right... texts and Texts are so mixed up in our lives now in a way that is more social than writing has ever been before. Like I wrote texts, facebook statues, emails so much more often than we wrote postcards and letters and passed notes before.
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I can't think of a Facebook status report right now. Will you write one for me and I'll plagiarize it?
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I think you just wrote it. Copy and paste
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An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?