JAMES HARRISON's List: Disinformation Debate

• Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say
• • THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS THE GENERATION OF TODAY LITERARY SKILLS DECLINING.
• Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.

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• • THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS NOT SET IN MOTION THE DECLINE OF LITERACY SKILLS, BUT ACTUALLY INFLUENCED THEM.
• In Changing News Landscape, Even Television is Vulnerable
• The transformation of the nation’s news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers. But there are now signs that television news – which so far has held onto its audience through the rise of the internet – also is increasingly vulnerable, as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.
• Online and digital news consumption, meanwhile, continues to increase, with many more people now getting news on cell phones, tablets or other mobile platforms. And perhaps the most dramatic change in the news environment has been the rise of social networking sites. The percentage of Americans saying they saw news or news headlines on a social networking site yesterday has doubled – from 9% to 19% – since 2010. Among adults younger than age 30, as many saw news on a social networking site the previous day (33%) as saw any television news (34%), with just 13% having read a newspaper either in print or digital form.

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