Posted on 22/07/04
Hackers devise their own language literacies
The recent National Endowment for the Arts survey about reading habits in the United States has depressed a lot of people. Everyone is blaming television and the Internet for the widespread decline in reading. There is a contradiction in this thought: Television may well be a factor, but the Internet, as my colleague Ian Brown has already pointed out, is still largely text-based, and spending time there involves hours of reading.
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