Introduction: Media in Motion

Message

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.