Introduction: Media in Motion
There is no doubt that the most important development underpinning the expansion of media over the last decades has been the rise of the internet. Read about this in your textbook on p. 22 and work with the tasks in the textbook and those below.
Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? In this TED talk, linguist John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting than it seems.
Links
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TED: John McWhorter
(youtube.com)
Extra Tasks
Listening
Articles and Resources
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Top ten languages on the internet
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Audio: The Outernet (BBC)
(bbc.co. uk) The Outernet aims to provide a library of knowledge for poor and remote communities – beamed down to Earth via satellite. -
Why China's internet use has overtaken the West (BBC Future)
(bbc.com)