“Are Digital Media Changing Language?”
“Are Digital Media Changing Language?” is an article by Naomi S. Baron that talks about the impact of media to our language. In this day and age there’s no denying that media have penetrated so deeply in our society that it could actually change the way some people speak and write. The author focused on digital media; which are texts, graphics, audios, and videos that can be transmitted over the internet or computer networks. Naomi Baron started the article by saying that languages naturally evolve but what we must be concerned about is how media changes our attitudes toward language. For me, the article was beautifully written by the author, it exposed a lot of information that could make someone like me aware of how media greatly affects the language we use.
Generation Z is the generation which is currently being born. The people in this generation contains the trait of having had lifelong use of communication and media technology like the World Wide Web, instant messaging, text messaging, MP3 players, and mobile phones, earning them the nickname "digital natives". So it’s increasingly difficult to avoid exposing young people in media and it is said today that most learning occurs outside our classrooms, the information conveyed by press, magazines, films, and radio broadcasts exceeds that information conveyed by the school. It is dangerous to spend so much time reading, listening, and watching different kinds of media because we might be influenced and we might adopt the language they use even though some are actually nice but it’s hard to determine which language are appropriate to use, for example new words have been invented to reflect the use of a particular service, like in twitter. When we post to twitter the action is called ‘tweeting’ and the post is called a ‘tweet’. Then there are abbreviations to add for example BTW which means by the way. Sometimes students accidentally slip it to their school works, if they are so used to using shortcuts that
Generation Z is the generation which is currently being born. The people in this generation contains the trait of having had lifelong use of communication and media technology like the World Wide Web, instant messaging, text messaging, MP3 players, and mobile phones, earning them the nickname "digital natives". So it’s increasingly difficult to avoid exposing young people in media and it is said today that most learning occurs outside our classrooms, the information conveyed by press, magazines, films, and radio broadcasts exceeds that information conveyed by the school. It is dangerous to spend so much time reading, listening, and watching different kinds of media because we might be influenced and we might adopt the language they use even though some are actually nice but it’s hard to determine which language are appropriate to use, for example new words have been invented to reflect the use of a particular service, like in twitter. When we post to twitter the action is called ‘tweeting’ and the post is called a ‘tweet’. Then there are abbreviations to add for example BTW which means by the way. Sometimes students accidentally slip it to their school works, if they are so used to using shortcuts that