The September 7, 2008 New York Times magazine section offered an article by Clive Thompson (http://nytimes.com/magazine) about how Twitter and other communication based on a continuous stream of "bit" entries is creating a "brave new world of ambient intimacy." I am both fascinated and repelled by the further fragmentation of message composition into miniscule units of self-reportage. The appeal of such media appear to be that they offer a lifestyle extension of the "helicopter parent"/"self-esteem boosting at any cost" formative years of many young people today. Does imagining a pedagogical application for these media give them tacit endorsement? Or is it just being realisitic about the realities of modern attention spans? The direct application to my field would be for students to "twitter" in Spanish rather than English.
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