Clive Thompson "A look inside his thoughts"

Clive Thompson’s Article “ The New Literacy” explains certain view’s and opinions people hold about technology and literacy of our nation. A lot of the article if you read explains university professors views and understanding that technology is taking over. But some disagree with each other when saying that are literacy is becoming demised because of it. Thompson claims, “that students today almost always write for an audience.” He is right. No matter if it’s a girl your trying to impress a homework assignment or maybe writing an essay for your English class it is always audience oriented. Is it cause the reader’s thoughts matter to us? Yes and no. My own view is that most of the time our thoughts are expressed is because of ignorance. Though I concede that what they are saying is were writing for an audience. I still maintain guilty conscience. For example, expressions are used when a person can no longer keep inside so the person seeks help and even go to the point were they use it as a stress relief. Although so might disagree. I reply that if not for are own stress relief than the audience’s. The issue is important becomes of the emphasis on this subject. While reading this article it become apparent to me that technology does help us in a way to exercise free speech. Whether its texting your friend late at night, posting your latest happening’s on facebook or proving information to people about your product if you will. It’s all related to your views. Clive talks about this on his last paragraph “Of course, good teaching is always going to be crucial, as is the mastering of formal academic prose. But it's also becoming clear that online media are pushing literacy into cool directions. The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision. At the same time, the proliferation of new forms of online pop-cultural exegesis—from sprawling TV-show recaps to 15,000-word videogame walkthroughs—has given them a chance to write enormously long and complex pieces of prose, often while working collaboratively with others.” What i can grab from this is that our nation is improving and experimenting with new toys. Constantly testing how literacy is applied and making up there own language as we go. He makes a good point that “pop exegesis” is becoming are major attention and I couldn’t agree more. We seek this information because its beneficial to us as the reader providing answers to the question one might ask while online. Which pop’s the question? Is literacy evolving or diminishing? Most teachers would agree that they enjoy the writing the old fashion way but would also admit they text and email on there cell phone’s. When think about this what is the point of writing formal? Is it To make the content look professional? Or is it strictly tradition aging back to the Greeks? All and all literacy is changing, but will the new way strike a revolution? These are the questions that need answering.