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How Digital Media Affects The Nature Of Social Interactions, Johnny Liang
How Digital Media Affects The Nature Of Social Interactions, Johnny Liang
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for evaluating and understanding the roles of digital media, in particular the mobile phone and the internet, in our interpersonal and societal relationships. Though this paper is essentially grounded in research, drawing from the work of psychologists, cyber anthropologists, philosophers, and professors of communication studies as well as years of personal observations, it should be understood as more of a theoretical rather than research-based primer on the effects of digital media in our everyday lives. While this paper includes various ways digital connections can improve our relationships, it primarily discusses …
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Five), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Five), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This, the fifth in a series on the history and ambitions of punctuation, describes the first vigorous manifestation of logical pointing. In an enlightened atmosphere of book reading and language consciousness, it was discerned that the shapes of sentences and their working parts were better delineated when punctuated syntactically.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This, the fourth in a series of essays on the history of punctuation, deals with Renaissance and Jacobean England, a period of intense experiment both in language and in the bookmaking arts. Printing, now fully in action, governed the public perception of what looked best on the page and how text should be pointed and spelled. Special attention is given to authors such as William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
Part One of this serialized survey (Courier 23.2, Fall 1988) dealt with the emergence of a late-Classical and early-Christian interest in eliciting, with 'euphuistic' punctating techniques, the voice patterns inherent in text. Part Two, herewith, gives attention to the Middle Ages. In this haphazard era, logical punctuation, which concentrates on syntactical structures and is therefore more appealing to eye than ear, begins its faltering growth.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
"The Punctator's World: A Discursion" is a study, in several parts, of the origins of punctuation and its development to the present day. Part One, herewith, follows the subject from its murky beginnings into the broad daylight of classical usage.