It pertained more to cell phone use, IM, texting. I enjoyed the speaker. She did a good job of explaining the parameters of research and how to determine if cost or culture was a determinant of a behavior.
Especially women prefer texting to IM because they can choose to delay a response or not to respond at all. I am going to research her books because she is a careful thinker. That title was very misleading because almost nothing pertained to Twitter or Facebook. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > I missed this last night. Did anyone go? If so, how was it? - Robert > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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. > > > Edit Your Profile or Unsubscribe > 90.7 KWMU-FM - One University Boulevard - St. Louis, MO 63121 > (314) 516-5968 l (314) 516-5993 fax > > > > -- John House [email protected] phone 314.209.0499 cell 314.677.4220 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
