How the Internet Changed Writing in the 2000s
January 3rd, 2010 admin
In a famous passage from Ulysses , James Joyce recapitulates the development of the English language in 45 pages — from the archaic and formal (“Deshil Holles Eamus”) to the conversationally casual (“Pflaap! Pflaap! Blaze on”). Over the past decade, as more people have spent more time writing on the Internet, that same evolution has not only continued, it feels like it’s accelerated. With so much discussion about how the Internet is changing journalism and media, there’s surprisingly little said about how writing itself has transformed. But it has changed in a dramatic if subtle way. Nine years ago, I remember being one of 100 or so journalists gathered to listen to a …
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