Thursday, February 2, 2012

If you want to keep reading, additional sources

As promised, here are some additional resources that could be helpful with your essays.

Read acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen's controversial take on ebooks and social values here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9047981/Jonathan-Franzen-e-books-are-damaging-society.html

Here is a recent debate about academic blogging in relation to traditional term papers:
http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/01/21/should-we-really-abolish-term-paper-response-ny-times

A summary of a research article connecting facebook and narcissism can be found here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=status-update-im-so-glamorous

And this is a NY Times essay in which the author argues for an understanding of "screen literacy":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html

As you can see, these are all pretty hot topics. 

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