This article focused on the impacts that technology has had on the writing for younger generations. The style of writing that is used for social media has become known as "Netspeak" and typically consists of shorter sentences and phrases, as well as shortening of words through abbreviations or substitutions. ie. lol for laughing out loud, or w8 for weight. These came about as ways to fit the short character limits set by many sites, however this style of writing has been observed to start affecting other more formal forms of writing. Although this is something that some people have become aware of, there are still many people who do this without thinking, and don't realize that they have started to use netspeak in writing for papers

This article talks about how the development of a second language can be enhanced by types of technology. The greatest effects in second language acquisition seem to occur with individuals already in higher education. Furthermore this meta-analysis looked at which types of technology were used, with the most common ones being computers, phones, and tablets.

This article focussed on how the covid lockdown had affected the language acquisition of children, ranging from about 1 to 3 years old. It talked about how screen use was shown to lower the amount of words learned during the same periods of time as compared to face to face interaction with another person.

This article heavily focussed on some of the ways in which language has been affected by social media. Particularly how there have been more acronyms or shortening of words to fit a more limited media.