Writing Online

Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good article, Generational Myth, exposing the myths concerning the digital generation in The Chronicle Review.

College students in America are not as “digital” as we might wish to pretend. And even at elite universities, many are not rich enough. All this mystical talk about a generational shift and all the claims that kids won’t read books are just not true. Our students read books when books work for them (and when I tell them to). And they all (I mean all) tell me that they prefer the technology of the bound book to the PDF or Web page. What kids, like the rest of us, don’t like is the price of books.

This Reuters article notes that one in five bosses check job applicants’ online presence to make hiring decisions.

The survey found that 34 percent of the managers who do screen candidates on the Internet found content that made them drop the candidate from any short list.