12.17.06
The Argument Culture: Eighth Post (Technology)
I would agree with Tannen that the many advances that we have made in communication have all served to make it easier for us to participate in the culture of critique. Cell phones, email, instant messaging, and perhaps especially text messaging all make instant reactions and unchecked emotional responses far too easy. Her brief piece complaining about video games was less enlightened, which is annoying, but perhaps she has learned more and changed her thinking since she wrote this book, since blaming video games for violence was comparatively new then.