As if we thought this little horse had been adequately flogged, the NY Times this morning has an article titled, "Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?" http://tinyurl.com/66wp8t
"As teenagers%u2019 scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading %u2014 diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books." And goes further with, "At least since the invention of television, critics have warned that electronic media would destroy reading. What is different now, some literacy experts say, is that spending time on the Web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even britneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text." Which I think comes back to the point Christine Boese made, referencing Marshal McCluhan. The new engagement does involve reading and interaction with text, but as opposed to interaction with a linear, broadcast, sovereign posture of a tree-book, the new interaction is marked by tribal conversations within a shared memespace, simultaneously engaging in dialogue while building Burrough's like cut-n-paste collages of meaning. Again - the article is here: http://tinyurl.com/66wp8t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31358 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
