." >> host: american university professor naomi baron. is technology changing the way we communicate? >> guest: yes and no. there's an assumption that technologies and computers, now mobile phones, are changing the way we write to each other, because we're suppose lid using all these abbreviations and acronyms and we're not using all that many there may be handful of these kinds of emoticons used but not nearly as many as the press would lead to us believe. what is changing the ways in which we read, the way we right. our social relationships are changing, and i'm going to suggest our personal individual psyches are changing as well. >> host: walk me through those. >> guest: let's start with how we read. what's pretty clear is that when you're reading things on the screen, you don't do it to -- by screen, i moon whether it's a laptop or ereader or tablet commuter or mobile phone. you don't do it the same way as when you're reading hard copies. that's the subject of my next book. what we know already is that you tend to skim, or worse, you

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." >> host: american university professor naomi baron. is technology changing the way we communicate? >> guest: yes and no. there's an assumption that technologies and computers, now mobile phones, are changing the way we write to each other, because we're suppose lid using all these abbreviations and acronyms and we're not using all that many there may be handful of these kinds of emoticons used but not nearly as many as the press would lead to us believe. what is changing the ways in which we read, the way we right. our social relationships are changing, and i'm going to suggest our personal individual psyches are changing as well. >> host: walk me through those. >> guest: let's start with how we read. what's pretty clear is that when you're reading things on the screen, you don't do it to -- by screen, i moon whether it's a laptop or ereader or tablet commuter or mobile phone. you don't do it the same way as when you're reading hard copies. that's the subject of my next book. what we know already is that you tend to skim, or worse, you