Comments on: Damn Kids And Their Internets! http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/ performs a blog dance for your amusement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: johnchx http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/comment-page-1/#comment-64409 johnchx Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:10:43 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/#comment-64409 Yes, there's an eerie sameness about the reports. I wonder if one can subscribe, like the "Solemn Warning of Dire Emergency of the Month Club". Or perhaps "Kids These Days Weekly". Yes, there’s an eerie sameness about the reports. I wonder if one can subscribe, like the “Solemn Warning of Dire Emergency of the Month Club”. Or perhaps “Kids These Days Weekly”.

]]> By: Narya http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/comment-page-1/#comment-64161 Narya Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:17:39 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/#comment-64161 Check out slacktivist (http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/) for a deconstruction/evisceration of the left behind books, done by someone who was raised evangelical. The posts are collected on the right sidebar, I think. (He's reading it and reporting on it, page by page, so we don't have to.) Check out slacktivist (http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/) for a deconstruction/evisceration of the left behind books, done by someone who was raised evangelical. The posts are collected on the right sidebar, I think. (He’s reading it and reporting on it, page by page, so we don’t have to.)

]]> By: mythago http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/comment-page-1/#comment-64062 mythago Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:39:39 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/#comment-64062 It does say something that I erroneously thought this report referred to the LAST time we had a Solemn Warning issued about how kids these days, they just don't read like we did. It does say something that I erroneously thought this report referred to the LAST time we had a Solemn Warning issued about how kids these days, they just don’t read like we did.

]]> By: johnchx http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/comment-page-1/#comment-64032 johnchx Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:11:18 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/01/29/damn-kids-and-their-internets/#comment-64032 Minor source nit: the table at Feministe isn't from Reading At Risk (2002) but from a later report, To Read or Not To Read (2007): http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html The table gives figures for reading "books in general," not limited to "literary reading" as in the 2002 report. Of course, "books in general" does exclude periodicals and online material. For extra entertainment, check out the sidebar on newspapers vs. the internet on pp. 52-53. Minor source nit: the table at Feministe isn’t from Reading At Risk (2002) but from a later report, To Read or Not To Read (2007):

http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

The table gives figures for reading “books in general,” not limited to “literary reading” as in the 2002 report. Of course, “books in general” does exclude periodicals and online material.

For extra entertainment, check out the sidebar on newspapers vs. the internet on pp. 52-53.

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