From the very interesting Economist spin-off Intelligent Life comes this convincing argument that new media is actually improving the quality of writing in public discourse.The argument goes like this--we're writing more, speaking less, and the forms in which we are communicating privilege concision and wit. We're communicating more, but in shorter, more meaningful bursts.
It's an interesting argument and worth the read. I'm still on the fence, personally, much like this writer -
"So I am glad, honestly, to have the old world of print and film supplemented by the new world of text and video. And I'm eager to stick up for casual and often vulgar online writing and culture as long as I'm not forced to defend them in grandiose terms. The internet often gratifies my curiosity and sense of humor, no small thing but nothing to confuse with whatever it is in me—something far more deeply interfused—that is gratified by poetry, philosophy, history, modes of writing that hardly exist online."
What are your thoughts?
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