Clive Thompson "New Literacy"

In Clive Thompson’s article called the “New Literacy” he talks about today’s new revolution of writing. People think that in this era, kids have no sense for writing because of technology. Andrea Lunsford, a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, thinks differently. Lunsford thinks that we are enhancing our writing and not losing our sense of literacy. The term she uses for this is our “Life Writing.” Lunsford stats in the article that “Technology isn’t killing our ability to write, it’s reviving it and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.” There is writing surrounding us everywhere these days with the use of texting and online resources such as Facebook, Myspace,and email, but according to College of London English professor John Sutherland this has “dehydrated language into a bleak, bald sad shorthand. Today kids write more than they did in the past according to Lunsford, and Thompson agrees that kids in todays society are gaining literacy.