Cyberculture and the Future of Print
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Email has drastically challenged America’s sense of communication, thinking and identity. “You’ve got mail!” In 1995, my family ordered America Online, and the world wide web was ushered into our house. We paid a nominal twenty dollar fee for a certain amount of time online. The familiar moniker of this internet service was so popular that a movie was made bearing the same name. I remember when my family ordered America Online in 1995, it existed in much the same context of novelty that Mark Twain used to describe his first experience with a typewriter. Twain writes, “I don’t want people to know I won this [typewriter] curious-breeding little joker” (500). I had an email address, but none of my friends did - so, it was useless. But when I embarked on my college career at Michigan State University in August of 1996, I became walkercl@pilot.msu.edu. And when I moved into Wonders Hall on campus in East Lansing, everyone was connected with the massive computer labs in the basement of our dorms; amidst the drone of tapping keys in the computer lab, I was exposed to the power of email. Increasingly, professors required an email response to texts and other class discussions, and all of my college bound friends had email, so I began to communicate in cyberspace.
Today, millions of emails are sent from user to user: according to one online almanac, more than 90% (“Online Activites by Age, 2002” http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903376.html) of the more than 56% of Americans who are already online (“Percent of Households with a Computer, 1998 and 2001” http://www.infoplease.com/ ipa/A0908342.html) send or receive emails on a regular basis. Email is everywhere and nowhere. According to Wendy Lessor, email is “at on...
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Lessor, Wendy. “The Conversation.” Writing Material. Ed. Tribble, Evelyn B. and Trubek, Anne. New York: Addison Wesley , Inc., 2003. 227- 233.
Ong, Walter. “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought.” Writing Material. Ed. Tribble, Evelyn B. and Trubek, Anne. New York: Addison Wesley , Inc., 2003. 316-335.
“Online Activities by Age, 2002.” InfoPlease.com. 28 March 2004. 2003 Family Education Network. 30 March 2004
In this essay, the author
- Describes how email has challenged america's sense of communication, thinking and identity. their family ordered america online in 1995, and it existed in the same context of novelty as mark twain described his first experience with a typewriter.
- Analyzes how email has generated and continues to modify new conventions of writing style, but the traditional post office, or snail-mail, remains fresh in our collective minds.
- Analyzes how email has effected our mode of thinking and our sense of identity. email addresses affect our identity in two ways.
- Explains how email will affect our concept of writers and writing. the informal tendencies of email are already established, and will not disappear in the near future.
- Explains that email is everywhere and nowhere. it is more efficient for segmented conversation than the telephone. colloquial emails are the primary subject of this paper.
- Argues that email's connection to education systems is a result of its popularity, not visa versa, as was the case with traditional letter writing.
- Explains that writing is a technology that restructures thought.
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- Opines that email is a bastardization of language, while texting and micro-blogging are steps down from intelligent debate. twitter compromises our mental processing power, making us crave faster, less complex tools.
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- Cites aboujaoude, elias m.d., psychiatrist and researcher, stanford university; author, virtually you: the dangerous powers of the e-personality
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- Opines that if we don't take action now, technology will not be a natural thing for our children.
- Opines that a first step to resolve the harms of technology is not easy. we should use advertising and let people be aware of the threat that’s not identified.
- Explains that teenagers appreciate smartphones and the internet. their grandparents enjoyed the telephone, and today’s teens enjoy it.
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