Saturday, September 8, 2007

Chris Werry: Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat

It's interesting to write about a piece that our own professor wrote. But regardless of an academic connection to him, his piece stands alone as a very interesting and applicable work in this day in age. After reading for years about Aristotle, Plato, and Homer ad nauseum it is really interesting and refreshing to read something that is so much more applicable to modern social culture. I do, however, think it could and should be updated with the increased use of internet communication, include wikis, MySpace, and even off the web with text messages. That aside, I really enjoyed reading about how technology and the media affects our literacy habits and tactics. Typically these are subconscious decisions that we make, and then never think about, so naturally I am intrigued when someone recalls these thoughts/actions and thrusts them into my line of sight.

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