Book Recommendation: Always On
I just finished a wonderful book by Naomi S. Baron – Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. Wonderful, I thought – I had yet to read a book that addressed the implications and impact of new technologies in relation to language!
Naomi Baron does a wonderful job in discussing historical concepts of language and electronic communication technologies and how they are affecting society in an immense way. The book was published in 2008, yet some of the topics in the book might already be considered archaic by some – just another example of how quickly new media is morphing, progressing and changing, only to be replaced by the next “big thing.”
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in social media, language, multi-tasking, linguistics, cultural studies or communications. If nothing else, you’ll walk away with a fresh perspective on how electronic communication is influencing how we listen, speak, read and write. I have to admit, throughout the book I found myself thinking, “I am guilty of that” and “I should be more conscious of that.”
Books addressing similar subjects:
Language and the Internet
Alphabet to Email
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (one of my next reads)
Tags: Language, New Media, Social Media
Communications, Experiences & Observations, New Media | Rachel Rusnak July 18, 2009 | 
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