Always on [[electronic resource] ] : language in an online and mobile world / / Naomi S. Baron

• Autore: Baron Naomi S
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 401.4
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages; Instant messaging; Internet
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BaronNaomi S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World; 2 Language Online: The Basics; 3 Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar; 4 Are Instant Messages Speech?: The World of IM; 5 My Best Day: Managing ""Buddies"" and ""Friends""; 6 Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond; 7 Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context; 8 ""Whatever"": Is the Internet Destroying Language?; 9 Gresham's Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture; 10 The People We Become: The Cost of Being Always On; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 eve
• Titolo autorizzato: Always on
• ISBN: 0-19-804270-1; 9786611341992; 0-19-987109-4; 1-281-34199-1; 1-282-50108-9; 9786612501081; 0-19-974131-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458803003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II