“Becoming Screen Literate” (New York Times magazine “The Screens Issue” Novermber 23, 2008), is perhaps too long but an important article (though WIRED has visited this territory before in many ways or … another.)
Media prophets have been yelling that the sky is falling for decades … or is it that the consumer audience is accomodating a new visual reality with multiple screens. Does it matter?
Check it out:
MAGAZINE | November 23, 2008
Idea Lab: Becoming Screen Literate
By KEVIN KELLY
How the moving image is upending the printed word.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html
(If the links do not work, go to www.NYTimes.com and search.)
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