July 27, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
By MOTOKO RICH
BEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her,
brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.
Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She
regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this
suburb southwest of Cleveland.
A slender, chatty blonde who wears black-framed plastic glasses, Nadia checks her
e-mail and peruses myyearbook.com, a social networking site, reading messages or
posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto
Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as
cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or
fanfiction.net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based
on books, television shows or movies.
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William L Katzenberger, Jr.
Media Specialist
Dodge Park Elementary School
3401 Hubbard Road
Landover, MD 20785
william.katzenberger@comcast.net
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