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Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance

by Ben Agger

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 22.8 x 1.3 cm

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Parents complain that kids today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Internet, texting, and video games. Many kids experience schooling as nothing more than endless homework, distracted teachers, and helicopter parents. It is easy to conclude from these factors that young people lack cultural literacy. By presenting the writings of today's kids, however, Agger develops an alternative perspective: This is the most literary of times, and the young people of today write furiously, albeit often below the adult radar. Here, where texting replaces textbooks, the writing may be emoticon-laden, slangy, or terse, but there is something profound going on, as kids (and their parents, too) engage in resistance and write toward utopia-a better world. Much texting and tweeting occur at night, when kids form egalitarian online and offline relationships and operate in a world in which a person can have many friends and explore opportunities previously unavailable to them. This book is a guide to understanding a new generation and its ideals, including democracy.
Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance and Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance
Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and ResistanceTexting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance

  • Author

    Ben Agger

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    August 2014

  • Weight

    323g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 22.8 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781612053080

  • ISBN-10

    1612053084

  • Eden Code

    4743336

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