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In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality. Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English. Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going. eBook available with sample pages: 0203194314
Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even
know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial
intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As
writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do
we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding its siren call?
To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and
think, linguist and educator Naomi S. Baron leads us on a journey
connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology.
From nineteenth-century lessons in composition, to mathematician
Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time
messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers
a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a
glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes
increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the
easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that
such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with
suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our
technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for
personal reflection and unique expression. Funny, informed, and
conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as
communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we
collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us
how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the
valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate.
In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality. Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English. Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.
An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium
on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant
choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom
materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents
make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has
transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning,
onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet
selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on
educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to
understand how reading medium actually impacts learning-and what
strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats. In
How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and
research to explain important differences in the way we
concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats.
Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings
from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key
challenges-from student complaints that print is boring to the
hazards of digital reading for critical thinking. Rather than
arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and
learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current
state of reading. The book then crucially connects research
insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches
for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video.
Since screens and audio are now entrenched-and invaluable-platforms
for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all
stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do
that.
Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this
book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we
seem to experience time with many of the theories presented to us
in physics and metaphysics. This comprehensive and accessible
introduction guides the unfamiliar reader through difficult
questions at the intersection of the metaphysics and physics of
time. It starts with the assumption that physics and metaphysics
are inextricably connected, and that each can, and should, shed
light on the other. The authors explore a range of views about the
nature of time, showing how different these are from the way we
typically think about time and our place in it. They consider such
questions as: whether time travel is possible, and, if it is,
whether we can change the past; whether there is a single moment
that is objectively present; whether time flows or is static; and
whether, ultimately, time exists at all. An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Time will appeal to students of physics and
philosophy who want both a comprehensive overview of the area and
enough depth to allow for rigorous discussion. The book's detailed
readings and exercises will challenge students and provide a clear
roadmap for further study.
Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this
book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we
seem to experience time with many of the theories presented to us
in physics and metaphysics. This comprehensive and accessible
introduction guides the unfamiliar reader through difficult
questions at the intersection of the metaphysics and physics of
time. It starts with the assumption that physics and metaphysics
are inextricably connected, and that each can, and should, shed
light on the other. The authors explore a range of views about the
nature of time, showing how different these are from the way we
typically think about time and our place in it. They consider such
questions as: whether time travel is possible, and, if it is,
whether we can change the past; whether there is a single moment
that is objectively present; whether time flows or is static; and
whether, ultimately, time exists at all. An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Time will appeal to students of physics and
philosophy who want both a comprehensive overview of the area and
enough depth to allow for rigorous discussion. The book's detailed
readings and exercises will challenge students and provide a clear
roadmap for further study.
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The Spirit of Laws (Paperback)
David E. Fritsche Th D.; Charles-Louis De S Baron De Montesquieu
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The authors conducted a natural resource assessment of Rocky
Mountain National Park (ROMO) to provide a synthesis of existing
scientific data and knowledge to address the current conditions for
a subset of important park natural resources. The intent is for
this report to help provide park resource managers with data and
information, particularly in the form of spatially-explicit maps
and GIS databases, about those natural resources and to place
emerging issues within a local, regional, national, or global
context.
People have been reading on computer screens for several decades
now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread
use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets
that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced
its first Kindle. Three years later, Apple debuted the iPad.
Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved and smartphones
proliferated, the phone became another vital reading platform.
In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron, an expert on language and
technology, explores how technology is reshaping our understanding
of what it means to read. Digital reading is increasingly popular.
Reading onscreen has many virtues, including convenience, potential
cost-savings, and the opportunity to bring free access to books and
other written materials to people around the world. Yet, Baron
argues, the virtues of eReading are matched with drawbacks. Users
are easily distracted by other temptations on their devices,
multitasking is rampant, and screens coax us to skim rather than
read in-depth. What is more, if the way we read is changing, so is
the way we write. In response to changing reading habits, many
authors and publishers are producing shorter works and ones that
don't require reflection or close reading.
In her tour through the new world of eReading, Baron weights the
value of reading physical print versus online text, including the
question of what long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if
we go overwhelmingly digital. She also probes how the internet is
shifting reading from being a solitary experience to a social one,
and the reasons why eReading has taken off in some countries,
especially the United States and United Kingdom, but not others,
like France and Japan. Reaching past the hype on both sides of the
discussion, Baron draws upon her own cross-cultural studies to
offer a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of the ways technology is
affecting the ways we read today--and what the future might bring.
Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic
media, which are changing our interactions and our communications
in ways that we are only beginning to understand. In Discourse 2.0:
Language and New Media, editors Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie
Trester team up with top scholars in the field to shed light on the
ways language is being used in, and shaped by, these new media
contexts. Topics explored include: how Web 2.0 can be
conceptualized and theorized; the role of English on the worldwide
web; how use of social media such as Facebook and texting shape
communication with family and friends; electronic discourse and
assessment in educational and other settings; multimodality and the
"participatory spectacle" in Web 2.0; asynchronicity and
turn-taking; ways that we engage with technology including reading
on-screen and on paper; and how all of these processes interplay
with meaning-making. Students, professionals, and individuals will
discover that Discourse 2.0 offers a rich source of insight into
these new forms of discourse that are pervasive in our lives.
Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory
modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another.
For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a
color. How does this happen? Is it a real phenomenon? Why do some
people develop this condition and not others? And might
synaesthesia unlock important clues about the organization of the
normal brain?
This volume brings together what is known about this fascinating
neurological condition. The above questions, and new issues arising
from the recent wave of cognitive neuroscientific research into
synaesthesia, are debated in a series of chapters by leading
authorities in the field. The book will be of great interest to
researchers and students in the cognitive neurosciences, and is
intended to spark further investigation into this relatively
neglected, extraordinary phenomenon.
People have been reading on computer screens for several decades
now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread
use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets
that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced
its first Kindle. Three years later, Apple debuted the iPad.
Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved and smartphones
proliferated, the phone became another vital reading platform. In
Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron, an expert on language and technology,
explores how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it
means to read. Digital reading is increasingly popular. Reading
onscreen has many virtues, including convenience, potential
cost-savings, and the opportunity to bring free access to books and
other written materials to people around the world. Yet, Baron
argues, the virtues of eReading are matched with drawbacks. Users
are easily distracted by other temptations on their devices,
multitasking is rampant, and screens coax us to skim rather than
read in-depth. What is more, if the way we read is changing, so is
the way we write. In response to changing reading habits, many
authors and publishers are producing shorter works and ones that
don't require reflection or close reading. In her tour through the
new world of eReading, Baron weights the value of reading physical
print versus online text, including the question of what
long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if we go
overwhelmingly digital. She also probes how the internet is
shifting reading from being a solitary experience to a social one,
and the reasons why eReading has taken off in some countries,
especially the United States and United Kingdom, but not others,
like France and Japan. Reaching past the hype on both sides of the
discussion, Baron draws upon her own cross-cultural studies to
offer a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of the ways technology is
affecting the ways we read today-and what the future might bring.
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