{"id":3048,"date":"2021-06-06T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2021-06-06T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:15:24","slug":"review-because-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Review: Because Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Because Internet<\/em> spans scholarship and popular culture in all the ways I admire.  Gretchen McCulloch doesn&#8217;t assume her audience consists of isolated academics or insular nerds.  I think dillatentes on both sides will learn and be entertained.  I consider myself a part of her target audience, so I found it delightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m the kind of language nerd who avoids prescriptivism and dire pronouncements about technology damaging our collective communication and cognition.  I seems like languages have always fragmented into jargon and argot and adapted to new technologies.  Technology changes both how we express our thoughts and the people we communicate with.  That&#8217;s true of everything from the chariot to the text message.  It&#8217;s interesting to look at the details of the changes that the Internet has encouraged, but I&#8217;m also confident that any shift away from, say, cursive writing that it encourages will not significantly damage us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCulloch largly shares my perspective, but can support the position with specific scholarship.  Better than that, she can explain the underlying studies and ideas clearly.  I&#8217;m interested and unprofessional and found the studies non-daunting and enlightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Internet spans scholarship and popular culture in all the ways I admire. Gretchen McCulloch doesn&#8217;t assume her audience consists of isolated academics or insular nerds. I think dillatentes on both sides will learn and be entertained. I consider myself a part of her target audience, so I found it delightful. I&#8217;m the kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}