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Texting Toward Utopia

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Texting Toward Utopia

By Ben Agger

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About the book

This book examines the contemporary era where parents complain that children today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Internet, texting, and video games. Texting Toward Utopia presents the writings of todays children and develops the argument that this is actually a time of mass literary, in which young people write furiously, albeit often below the adult radar. Agger argues that where texting replaces textbooks, the writing may be emoticon-laden, slangy, or terse, but it...Show more

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ISBN

9781612053080

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2014

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Texting Toward Utopia

Format

Paperback

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