unit-2-bards-of-the-internet-課文翻譯-在線瀏覽
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【正文】 witty and above all brief. “The medium favors the terse,” says Crawford Kilian, a writing teacher at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Short paragraphs, bulleted lists and oneliners are the units of thought here.”9. Some of the most successful netwriting is produced in puter conferences, where writers pose in a kind of collaborative heat, knocking ideas against one another until they spark. Perhaps the best examples of this are found on the WELL, a Sausalito, California bulletin board favored by journalists. The caliber of discussion is often so high that several publications — including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal — have printed excerpts from the WELL.10. Curiously, what works on the puter networks isn’t necessarily what works on paper. Netwriters freely lace their prose with strange acronyms and “smileys,” the little faces constructed with punctuation marks and intended to convey the winks, grins and grimaces of ordinary conversations. Somehow it all flows together quite smoothly. On the other hand, polished prose copied onto bulletin boards from books and magazines often seems longwinded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can e across as selfimportant blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washingtonbased reporter who covers the online culture for Communications Daily: “There are a bunch of hacker kids out there who can string a sentence together better than their blueblooded peers simply because they log on all the time and write, write, write.”11. There is something inherently democratizing — perhaps even revolutionary — about the technology. Not only has it enfranchised thousands of wouldbe writers who otherwise might never have taken up the craft, but it has also thrown together classes of people who hadn’t had much direct contact before: students, scientists, senior citizens, puter geeks, grassroots (and often bluecollar)
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