8 Responses to Week 7's Readings (Number 7 will shock you!)

1. RAMEN NOODLES - I can't see myself springing for a print subscription even if I suddenly became well-to-do. The ramen-noodle theory doesn't really hold up for me because I've never once, while reading the online version of a publication, wished for the print version. I think it's just a result of the time during which I became an avid newsreader. Ramen noodles will do just fine when you never really craved food in a time during which ramen noodles weren't readily available. To live in that time and not be able to afford steak would've been a real tragedy.
2. RAMEN NOODLES - "Martin Langeveld in 2009 and 2010 estimated that about 97% of time spent with newspaper content was in print -- only 3% was online. Academic research revealed similar findings. Based on 2011 data provided by 12 U.K. newspapers, Neil Thurman figured that at least 96.7% of the time spent with these newspapers by their domestic readers was in print."
   
   I'd like to see how these studies were conducted. The article mentions nothing about whether or not any of the readers spending 97% of their time in print actually owned subscriptions. Print, in my estimation, is still physically available in enough places that anyone constantly finding themselves in the waiting room of a doctor's office for example or just digging through the neighbor's garbage can (heh) say truthfully that they get most of their news in print. Online news still requires access to the internet. Internet access is still not as readily available to everyone as access to waiting rooms and garbage cans.
3. SERIOUS READING - This article had me thinking about the rise of listicles and click-bait headlines in our current news climate.
4. SERIOUS READING - I find it really fascinating that the brain, as stated in the article, was not designed for reading but has adapted due to developments in human history as recent as the Gutenberg press. That got me thinking that the rules of punctuation, spelling, grammar, etc - in the context of our history as a civilization - aren't really the sacred cows that many linguists make them out to be every time a new wacky word is accepted into Webster's or Oxford's for example.
5. SERIOUS READING - This article also reminded me of a study I read about a few months ago that found that among a lot of millennials, ending your texts with a period actually signals that you are not being sincere about what you text. It's an interesting article that touches on how punctuation is being repurposed in the digital age by millennials who increasingly value efficiency over proper grammar when communicating with each other. I also got to learn from digging deeper that punctuation is not the same thing as grammar. Here's the article:
   Study confirms that ending your texts with a period is terrible
6. MILLENNIALS SAY KEEPING UP WITH NEWS IS IMPORTANT - This article leads with the headline "... good luck getting them to pay for it." Then it goes about contradicting that with the findings cited toward the end of the article. The headline is a bit misleading and click-baity.
7. RAMEN NOODLES is an anagram for REDONE SALMON!
8. WHY DIGITAL NATIVES PREFER READING IN PRINT - This article makes a lot of sense to me but mostly when kept in the context of college campuses and collegiate reading. It even supports the ramen noodle theory:
   
   "If price weren't a factor, Baron's research shows that students overwhelmingly prefer print. Other studies show similar results."