Summary: Sven Birkerts’ “Into the Electronic Millennium”

About 20 years ago Sven Birkerts seems to be outdated for new media formats. The changes and consequences that new technologies (television, fax, computer) bring to society are mourned by Luddite. Luddite, the work really plays the role of "elegger". For Birkerts, the change brought about by the new media format is the slow death of the printed text, and he believes the result will be bad. Birkerts believes that the social impact of transition to electronic media will be overwhelming as orutro culture is replaced with sentences when Gutenberg's "moving type" revolutionizes writing techniques. His text can be used not only as a symbol but also to convince potential skeptics that this change is actually a reality. The "pathological symptoms" seen are as follows.

1) Language decline - This is the result of the decline of the American education system. This is because, in part, a new media format (such as "commercial-sponsored educational package") is incorporated into the curriculum. According to Birkerts, this will gradually be replaced by "more ordinary" more straightforward "oral and written expression complexity and uniqueness closely related to the traditional print culture" (128).

2) Flattening of historical views - Our perceptions of the past, Birkerts, claims that "basic methods to represent the physical accumulation of books and books in library space" (129). Birkrts believes that our history of view loses depth and aspect because electronic communication "makes us participate in the network process" and therefore "exists permanently" (129).

3) Decline of private self - According to Birkerts, the participation in electronic media, especially the increase of "availability", online requirement of "circuit" ultimately "defeat the ideal of an isolated individual" (130 ). More importantly, he believes that we have entered the "social grouping process" or "social all-terrain". In fact, his theory and suggestion that society is moving toward "computer communism" is not too far.

Although the first two predictions of Birkerts are very problematic, some may argue, but the loss of privacy has proved to be a controversial issue. Although Birkerts raises some legitimate concerns, the main drawback of this white paper is that it does not take into account the benefits of the new media format, critically considering "change" is a positive approach maybe.

Birkerts, Sven. "Entry into the Electronic Millennium" Gutenberg elegy: the fate of reading in the electronic age New York: Ballantyne. 1994. printing

Twenty years ago, literary critic Sven Birkerts expressed some of the most serious concerns in "Gantenburg elegy: Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age". I am tired of being stuck in a pessimistic Kassandra. A few days ago, he took a Boston subway and noticed things changed, I looked up from a concentration point of view. "Everyone picks up the wire from his ear, or he takes a small screen with his own hands," he recalls. "We are not talking about the future of the future, it has arrived."

About 20 years ago Sven Birkerts seems to be outdated for new media formats. The changes and consequences that new technologies (television, fax, computer) bring to society are mourned by Luddite. For Birkerts, the change brought about by the new media format is the slow death of the printed text, and he believes the result will be bad. Birkerts believes that the social impact of transition to electronic media will be overwhelming as orutro culture is replaced with sentences when Gutenberg's "moving type" revolutionizes writing techniques. His text can be used not only as a symbol but also to convince potential skeptics that this change is actually a reality. The "pathological symptoms" seen are as follows.

Before Carr's Atlantic paper was published, critics were concerned about the possibility that electronic media could replace the reading of the literature. In 1994, American scholar Sven Barks published a book titled "Including a series of articles claiming a decline in the impact of literary culture" "Gutenberg Elegy: Reading fate of the electronic age". My hobby is favored by the community - there is a central premise inside the paper that alleges that the alternative delivery format of this book is not as good as avatar of paper. After the class taught in the autumn of 1992, Birkerts advised him to write a book that is almost thankful for the literature he assigned to his, because in his opinion, I felt the skill. It is uncomfortable. Reading