{"id":56111,"date":"2013-07-09T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56111"},"modified":"2017-09-17T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:22:47","slug":"in-olden-times-it-was-different-technology-and-social-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/07\/09\/in-olden-times-it-was-different-technology-and-social-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Olden Times It Was Different&#8221;: Technology and Social Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In academia, it&#8217;s fairly common to hear people bemoan students&#8217; writing skills and the supposed effect that tweeting, texting, and other new communication technologies are having on our use of the written language. I&#8217;ve been known to do it myself after receiving an email in text-speak. Generally, humans have a tendency to think that the changes in their own time are unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1227\/\">xkcd comic<\/a>\u00a0presents quotes from various sources concerned about the impacts of technology, particularly the dying art of communication. It&#8217;s a nice reminder that bemoaning the effect of new technologies is nothing new, nor is the tendency to romanticize some period in the vague past as the &#8220;good old days&#8221; when things were better.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In academia, it&#8217;s fairly common to hear people bemoan students&#8217; writing skills and the supposed effect that tweeting, texting, and other new communication technologies are having on our use of the written language. I&#8217;ve been known to do it myself after receiving an email in text-speak. Generally, humans have a tendency to think that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-56111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71391,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56111\/revisions\/71391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}