With rapid change of the technical development over the several decades, a lot of modern forms of communication step into our life, such as soft applications for smartphone and different social network sites. These modern communication forms help people in interacting with others in real or virtual world more convenient and faster. Meanwhile, these new technologies working for communication are forming the present social medias. Social media have become a significant part of life to keep connection between people with society and others today. Our lives have been affected by various social media. For example, as an impact of present social media, the development of mobile technology has played an important role in daily life of people. If people …show more content…
From ancient times to the present, people keep sharing various information by writing. Books, letters and newspaper are carriers for helping people to share their communication with others. However, some people concern that the development and application of modern information and network technologies might lead to bad behavior that against teenagers’ education. According to Michaela Cullington, a writer who wrote “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, “Many also complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing” (Cullington 363). Cullington mentions some complaints that texting, a production of present social media, affect students’ writing ability badly because teachers say that students would forget how to use punctuation correctly by using texting. And there is another complaint that “Many argue that texts lack feeling because of their tendency to be short, brief and to the point” (363). This complaint mainly argues that students are usually not expressing their emotion actively by texting so that teachers are afraid of this would happen in students’ writing. Although part of people considers teenagers’ education would be affected negatively by the production of present social media, there still exists another part of people who believe that social media bring a benefit to teenagers’ education. Also in Cullington’s article, she points out “texting should be viewed as beneficial because it provides students with motivation to write, practice in specific writing skills, and an opportunity to gain confidence in their writing” (364). As Cullington says in her article, texting has not requirements as many as writing in formal and would allow students to really relax their minds so that reach the goal motivating them to enjoy writing, thus, the social media influence their teenagers’ education in positive way as
In the article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy,” writer Clive Thompson argues that the widespread use of technology and social media does not make kids illiterate and unable to form coherent sentences, but instead, keeps them actively writing and learning. Thompson’s article is based off of a study done by Andrea Lunsford, a writing professor at Stanford University. Thompson agrees with Lunsford that the use of social media and the Internet allow students to be creative and get better at writing. In his article, Thompson quotes John Sutherland, an English professor at University College of London, to inform the audience of the opposite side of the argument. He states, “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have
Within the last two decades, our social media has rapidly developed and it becomes one of the most influent types of social communication. Though its original purpose is to be a convenient way to converse distantly, it becomes multi-tasked in recent years which some notable Internet corporations such as Facebook, Tweeter create new applications that expand its purpose from talking only. In a way, it renovates the idea of entertainment.
Michaela Cullington, a student, wrote a paper “Does Texting Affect Writing?” in 2010 for an English class. The paper is an examination of texting and the belief that it negative effective student’s writing. Cullington goes into detail about textspeak- “language created by these abbreviations”- and their use in formal writings. She organizes the paper in a way that is confusing to understand at first (pg. 1). At the end of the paper, she discusses her finding in her own research which comes to show that texting does not affect writing. But this is contradicting to the information she received from the teachers. The students and the teachers were seeing differences in the use of textspeak in formal writing. Cullington has good support for her
In the article, “Does Texting Affect Writing?”, the author Michaela Cullington conveys her speculation that texting does not correlate to how students write formal essays. At the beginning of the article Cullington introduces the term texting and the convenience texting brings. Later expressing her concern that the texting language “Textspeak” is actually affecting students writing; then contradicts these views by using primary and secondary sources (news articles, books, her own surveys and research). In addition, she uses an anecdote to tell of her own experience with texting and writing. Together with other evidences and research put together, she uncovers the debate between textspeak and formal writing. On the basis of her research, she concludes that the state of texting does not interfere with writing or writing abilities.
Clive Thompson asserts in his essay, The New Literacy, that people today are writing more than ever as they socialize online. Nowadays, almost everybody uses social media, but it is more popular amongst younger people. Teenagers text and tweet every little thought that pops up in their head. However, numerous scholars can argue that texting and tweeting defiles the serious academic writing with slang and “text speak.” By way of contrast, Thompson claims that using shortened language and smileys online does not degrade a person’s abilities to write well in an academic paper. Furthermore, composing texts and tweets online can help an individual with their writing. By communicating online, we are able to learn grammar and writing through our own
Text messaging is a technology that contributes to the great decline of the English language. The English language is often butchered through the use of text messaging. In Orwell’s essay, he states “An effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form” (446). Main stream society is too lazy to correct any grammar and punctuation in a text message, leading to the assumption that it is not important, after all it is only a text message. Thus, this shows the English language is in decline, when society is to lazy to take a few extra second to correct spelling and punctuation errors . One would not be able to write the same way in an academic essay as they would in a text message. If one would do so, that student would receive an F. No English teacher, or for that matter any teacher, would be thrilled nor impressed reading an essay filled with these common texting erors.
We have also begun something that Clive Thompson and Andrea Lunsford both agree upon; that the “dumbest generation” is in the “midst of a literacy revolution.” Teenagers will communicate with one another, that’s obvious. They talk, Skype, and most commonly, text. Most of the time teenagers will be texting nonstop: to their parents, friends, or whomever they desire. But texting is bad, isn’t it? According to Andrea Lunsford, texting is the root cause of this revolution. For children and young adults, all communication is done through writing. Whether it be emails, text messages, chat rooms, or more formal projects such as essays, assignments, or journals, all is mostly completed by writing. With all of these uses of writing, the “dumbest generation” writes exceedingly more than their parents generation, whom would only write in school or in jobs that required it. According to Lunsford, the technical level of writing has improved as well, “The students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos - assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across” (Lunsford qtd Thompson). The children of the “dumbest generation” so far have been able to do the impossible. We have redefined the social barriers that prevented us from being a socially equal and innovative society, we have allowed the classroom setting to be more self taught
The research will determine how text messages can be promoted for learning and literacy and the effect it will have on minors.The effects of the perceived decline of teenagers literacy due to limited frequency in uses via messaging such as texting, email, instant messaging and direct messing.The finding will come from articles, interviews and surveys that shows and tell the results of text messaging when it is being used and the right time to text.Texting is not always the cause of inclining and declining literacy rates, but it can be used to help literacy as well as increase teen and childhood performance in classrooms.
Can people live without social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and all the social networks application out there? In today 's society, social media is consider as an indispensable tool in peoples ' daily lives. It has gained spectacular worldwide growth and popularity. The impact of social media on the majority of people is significant; they use the social media as a daily routine that is necessary as food and sleep. Social media is consider one of the top form of communication since it has made a revolution in people 's social lives. It has changed the way people interact and communicate among each other. Social media give a lot of possibilities and opportunities for users, and being socially connected has improve the way people communicate.
You can say that overuse in texting is determination the way teens, students write formally in the classroom. Teens that spend most of their eyes on their phone has already created their own texting style. Now I am able to answer the question, how does texting affect teen literacy? Texting affects teen literacy because, text messaging does affect our grammar because, teens text like for example; “ttyl”, “gtg”, “wyd”. They find an easy way of texting rather than using the correct way. In order to get what they want done, we wanted to see and learn about the damage that texting can cause on teens and we did learn, we learned that it can affect our grammar, grades, and even your future in trying to get a job, your skills in so much more. I wanted to inform the teens about the damage that texting in short terms can do to you. Encourage them not to write in short term because, they are too
Text messaging is damaging our literacy and communication skills as a society. Calling someone on the phone or writing them a letter is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. There is a new language that is being learned and not taught across the globe. It is the language of Textese, and it has quickly consumed the lives of millions across the world. There will always be the protector of language arts. These are the shrinking number of people everyone knows, that will continue to handwrite letters and sign them with proper English and etiquette. It may be as simple as picking up the phone and calling a friend or relative. It may be even simpler than that, in that people put forth an effort to talk to the person sitting next to or across from you and engage them in a conversation. Texting and textisms have become so common and widespread that using proper English, correct spelling, and full sentences is also becoming a thing of the past. People that constantly use text and instant messaging may have difficulty with literacy and expressing themselves in writing form. The research shows that text messaging has deteriorated how we communicate and express ourselves because textisms have become an easier and quicker form of communication that has affected literacy in children and adults.
The Horn of Plenty A cornucopia is a horn-shaped ornament that can be a true horn of a goat or other animal or can be made of wicker. Usually, cornucopias are filled with common American harvest crops until the amount of crop in a single one is so superfluous that it overflows with food. Corn, pumpkins, and other gourds are commonly put into cornucopias. The word comes from the Latin phrase “cornue copiae,” and its meaning is “horn of plenty.”
Social media is the fruit of the current Web 2.0 technology. It is a series of organized applications which need to have internet connection to realize their functions of producing and interchanging of the contents generated by users (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). To be clearer, the social media is what we use to exchange information in daily life through internet. The implementation of social media can be found all around us, especially with the development of portable devices, and easier internet access. With constant upgrading on mobile platform, and the efforts of internet suppliers, more and more people can now enjoy the social media applications and media web sites with a relatively lower constraint by time and space. Through using social media tools, people can receive or deliver information quicker and more effectively. The implementation of social media has made the earth smaller. Thus, it may bring about many impacts which may significantly change people’s lives.
Social Media means the use of web-based and mobile technologies to make communication an interactive dialogue. It takes on many different forms including social blogs, Internet forums, magazines, micro blogging, photographs or pictures, wikis, videos, podcasts, rating and social bookmarking. With the world in the midst of a social media revolution, it is very obvious that social media like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc., are used extensively for the purpose of communication. This form of communication can be done with a person or a group of persons. Today most of the people working in the organizations, especially the young generation are hooked on to the different social media for keeping in contact with their peers. It is media for the social interaction as a superset beyond the social communication. There are both advantages and the disadvantages of using social media. One very important advantage is online sharing of knowledge and distributing information among the different groups of people. And this online sharing of information also promotes the increase in communication skills among the people. There are also disadvantages of
In addition, social media changed the way of living and the working level of many people like organizing vacations and researching for school and university projects. With attributes that may affect the way people interact online, social media open a new ways for many newspapers, magazines to publish their issues online to promote their ideas quickly and to let the people in contact with their news and to make more productivity and make more money. Also, they can listen to any type of music, reads books, story, purchase any product, buy clothe online...