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From: 90.7 KWMU <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Subject: Learn about Facebook and Twitter at Maryville University tonight
Medart Lecture Series
Naomi Susan Baron, Ph. D.
Are you all a-Twitter about Facebook and other social media?
Do you wonder what it is really doing to our communication skills?
Maryville University's guest speaker, Naomi Susan Baron, Ph. D., has
the answers for you tonight—April 6, 2009.
Dr. Baron will discuss "Control Freaks: How Language Technologies are
Reshaping Future Communication," at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Maryville
University Auditorium. Dr. Baron's principal interests lie in
computer-mediated communication, writing and technology, language in
social context, language acquisition and the history of English.
A professor of linguistics, Baron is also co-director of the TESOL
(Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Program in the
Department of Language and Foreign Studies at American University. A
Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and past president of the Semiotic
Society of America, Baron has authored seven books. Her latest book
is titled, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World.
More information at www.maryville.edu.
Sponsored by Maryville's 2009 Medart Lecture Series.
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