When I glanced over other
classmate’s posts regarding news sources and the Internet, I noticed a trending
theme, the overall disregard for newspapers. My generation is receiving nearly
all of their trending news topics solely from Internet sources like CNN, Fox
News, BBC, Yahoo, and other similar sites. We all browse random articles until
one such story piques our interest in whatever subject is being reported on
that day.
That is not
to say that using such reputable sources is a negative, it is just such a major
shift from nearly a decade ago where nearly every house received a newspaper of
sorts. Regardless if there has been a major shift to such a new frontier for
news, it does not mean that we as a nation are any less literate. Many of my
fellow students are interested in such a varied amount of topics and read even
more in depth articles to pursue their passions. That is one small class at one
small college. The amount of progressing and literate people in the United
States like students, teens, and children who are more then savvy enough with
technology is increasing exponentially.
While
Hedges’s and Carr both agreed that the Internet is a negative force against
literacy as a whole, it is hard to argue with simple facts that the Internet is
increasing in usage, accessibility, and that younger generations are more
connected to it, thus, allowing for a more generally literate generation.
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