Impacts of Internet

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How does the Internet impact language?

The internet has significantly revolutionized how we connect with one another. Internet abbreviations have arisen as a new type of shorthand since communication has become so easy at our fingertips. This basically implies that we have means that we have refined our ability to adjust to a variety of communication settings. According to David Crystal, depending on the platform you’re utilizing, there are a variety of linguistic styles to choose from. He gives Twitter as an example. They requested users to answer to one question at the outset of the app’s development: According to David Crystal, depending on the platform you’re utilizing, there are a variety of linguistic styles to choose from. He gives Twitter as an example. They requested users to answer to one question at the outset of the app’s development: “What you’re doing?” This resulted in a type of journal in which a user’s inner thoughts were described to their followers. Later on, the app’s prompt was altered to “What is happening?” Users were more likely to communicate what was going on around them rather than their inner thoughts. Users are shifting away from writing in the first tense and toward the second and third tenses. Because it is no longer a journal, but rather a news source, the tenses begin to change. Despite this range of linguistic patterns, the internet has had little influence on language, particularly the English language. According to David Crystal, “Every internet domain influence the way you use language in quite specific ways but it isn’t yet possible to predict the future because it’s all so recent. It takes a long before new trends, technological or otherwise, influence the language in a permanent sort of way. The internet is too young yet.”

How does the Internet impact culture?

According to David Crystal, there will always be naysayers when it comes to new technology. “There are prophets of doom that have said that text messaging is a disaster,” he says, adding that the internet is no exception. The opposite has actually happened despite their negative premonition. The internet has had a huge beneficial influence on the creation of a global community. This technology has shown to be quite useful in presenting other cultures to a wider range of individuals. It makes a wide range of experiences that were previously restricted to a certain place available to people on the opposite side of the globe. Apart from introducing other cultures to a new audience, the internet has also aided in the formation of a global internet culture. For instance, amongst internet users, there is an implicit global etiquette not to expose someone else’s personal details without their knowledge, which even has a negative reputation to describe it referred to as doxing. Another example of global internet culture is making individuals in need viral in attempt to get them the assistance they require, such as in a natural disaster or humanitarian catastrophe. This may be seen in the way the international world banded together to help Syrian refugees. The internet has also facilitated the development of new forms of expression in music, art, and literature.

How does the Internet impact literature?

The usage of acronyms in literature is not a new trend. There are many more abbreviations and shorthand in nineteenth-century literature than we are aware of. According to David Crystal, there was nothing to do in the afternoons and nights during the Victorian era, therefore they would regularly play language games. As a result, the effect of the internet on literature cannot be traced in the way people use language today. The internet’s effect on literature may be observed in how literary creations are fostered and circulated. “Text messaging as a genre is turning out to be extraordinary creative,” says David Crystal. Some magazines, such as The Guardian, have held text message poetry competitions in which both young and old individuals have competed.  The internet has also benefited many budding authors by offering a forum for their work. Wattpad and Archive of Our Own, for example, feature hundreds of novels in many languages from all over the world. These books are made available to readers for free reading at their leisure. Similarly, works by authors all over the world may be instantly delivered to their readers via online purchasing. Books that we had to wait weeks for are suddenly in our hands in the short amount of time.

How does the Internet impact education?

According to David Crystal, the internet has boosted literacy in school-aged youngsters. “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.  The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores” He says. This is due to the fact that the primary acts employed in communications are writing and reading. This serves as practice for writing and reading, and it provides young people with numerous opportunities to apply what they have learned in the classroom. Children that use the internet are always reading something, which creates a completely different learning environment than previous generations. The trade-off is that internet users; both children and adults have walked away from reading lengthy information. Nonetheless, frequent exposure to text on the internet has had a good influence on literacy. Crystal goes on to say in his interview with the RSA, “The main development in English language teaching curriculum over the past twenty years is to inculcate into kids this notion of appropriateness of language. Replacing the older, black and white, correct, incorrect concept of language by a more sophisticated notion that every style of language has its purpose and you’ve got to see what the purpose is.” It is now necessary to differentiate which types of information are more efficiently delivered through text than through other forms.

How does the Internet impact society?

The internet has had a significant influence on how we interact with one another in current times. It has urged us not just to gaze inside, but also to be active observers of what is going on around us. “The internet has become more of an information exchange mechanism than it used to be,” says David Crystal.   As a result, the speed with which information is shared has increased dramatically. The need for a facilitator or the media is reduced because people may now share information directly with their very own areas of influence. Certain material may now go viral, which means it can be shared and re-shared with an increasing number of individuals in a short period of time. However, this creates a breeding ground for mis-information and dis-information. This was clearly evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost immediately, incorrect information about the illness and its vaccinations began to circulate. These pieces of information made their way throughout the world, contributing to people believing a plethora of hoaxes. As a result, immunization rates in many nations across the globe have been hampered. This example demonstrates that internet users now have a new duty to be more attentive about the stuff that they receive. All of this contributes to a more active and involved society. Being a part of a vocal society may always help to bring about change.

Reference

David Crystal – Texts and Tweets: myths and realities (2010) Interview. Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj8VYzDAy8 on November 24, 2021.

David Crystal – The Effect of New Technologies on English (2014) Interview. British Council of Serbia, YouTube. Retrieved from on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqcoB798Is November 24, 2021