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Gigi Chambers

Professor Campbell

Wrds 1104

21 March 2022

Annotated Bibliography

Bures, Sarah. “Exploring the invisible impact of technology.” The New York Times, 6 May

2020,https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/reader-center/ontech-newsletter-writer.html.

Accessed 18 March 2022.

In this article by The New York Times , Sarah Bures the author talks about how coronavirus has

forced us to rely on technology and how we are impacted from it. She explains our relationship

with technology and how it affects us. Bures does that by citing a woman called Shira Ovide who

wrote a newspaper article based on other journalists and their uses of technology. She takes an

excerpt from Ovide and applies it to her work, which becomes the main point of the article. In

the excerpt it contains questions that Ms.Ovide was asked through a phone interview and her

answers. Asking questions related to emotions, technology and the efficiency of remote work.

Most of the responses are on how shocked and confused everyone is having to suddenly switch

to remote and working online at home. They only comment on how different everything is and

don’t go into much informatic detail.

Sarah Bures is an established journalist and has done work as an audience editor of New York

Times. She just recently joined CPR (which stands for Colorado Public Radio) in 2021 as an

audience journalist as well. She has also worked as a web developer for The Times and has
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experience as a freelance photographer. Shira Ovide, who was mentioned in the article, is a

newsletter writer for The New York Times for over 25 years. They both seem very reliable

authors but their work uses bias from outside sources such as interviewing the public.

This source isn’t really helpful for my project because it doesn’t talk about my topic enough. It’s

pretty much useless but I thought it would be extremely helpful because of the title and it was

published by NY Times. But I found out the interview was only towards NY Times office

workers and not the general public. This article just focuses on the opinions of technology by

office workers. I think the article is poorly done since the only part that is original and not

written by them is the introduction. The body and conclusion are all quoted from the interview

and not elaborated on. I highly doubt that I will be using this source for my project.

Beaumont, Nick. “The Impact of Technology on Words We Use.” Harvard, 11 February

2021,https://www.harvard.co.uk/the-impact-of-technology-on-the-words-we-use/.

Accessed 19 March 2022.

This journal article from Harvard written by Nick Beaumont explains how technology is a

linguistic tradition that has been advancing since the beginning of written communication. The

article works its way up through the years of language and the history of writing. Nick then states

that writing is a technology within itself. With new mediums comes new writing styles. English

has never been fixed and has always changed to fit into the norms during the time period.

Technology has created a new way of writing and types of communication. Digital

communication changs the rules of standard writing. Capitalization at the start of a sentence in

text usually means seriousness but all caps means yelling or shouting. That’s why texting is very
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improper and all lower case. Beaumont also points out the new language created by technology

which is text abbreviations such as “brb, “ttyl”, and “c u ltr”.

Nick Beaumont is an editorial manager at Harvard and is located in london. With just a little over

10 years of experience, Nick focuses on arts, designs, operations, media, and communication.

Nick is very reliable since his job function is about both media and communication. His

workplace is also reliable since it’s an award winning agency for tech brands and their

technology.

This source is one of my favorites because it’s a very good written article. It relates to my

research as it speaks on technology, communication, and written language. He goes through the

history of writing and language. Then explains the evolution of it and how communication

changes according to the time periods. He also goes on to explain the current ways of

communication and the comparison of communication back then. This one will definitely be

used in my project.

Dillard, Grant. “The Impact of Technology on Communication.” Youtube, 26 November 2018,

https://youtu.be/D3mNn0btW6s. Accessed 18 March 2022.

In the youtube video “The Impact of Technology on Communication” Grant Dillard the speaker

starts off with an experience he had the past summer. Which was a crazy story of an encounter

with a stranger and a gun. He explains how he gets out of the situation using the power of

communication. After he talks about the impacts of technology with two main points,

communication quality, and preference. Technology is making communication easier,

convenient, and much faster. But it also oversimplifies the way we communicate, which degrades
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the quality. As technology is continuing to upgrade,we reach the point that we start to express

emotions less with texting and more with visual symbols like emojis. Since technology has made

communication very convenient now, we mostly do our communication online. The availability

of these technologies for communication has also resulted in a transformation of interpersonal

relationships. Almost every type of communication today has become virtual instead of face to

face. When you are chatting with someone, friend, family, or coworker over your phone you are

establishing a far deeper relationship with convenient technology rather than with the person on

the other end of the line.

Grant Dillard is a student of Brentwood college who is a debater. He has perfected his public

speaking and participated in international debate competitions. He has been from Athens to Yale

using his skills to help younger students in the art of verbal communication. I don't think he is

very credible because his debate is focused on personal opinion.

This source is in the middle. I believe that it has some good points made but the rest isn’t useful

for me. Such as the summer trip story I would most likely cut that part out of my research. The

video is also quite lengthy which could also be an issue. Along with the speaker who is a college

student with no background in technology but knows a lot about communication and debates.

Debates do include some facts but mostly opinion based evidence. Because of that it is possible

that I might not use this source in my project.

News Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/reader-center/ontech-newsletter-writer.html

YouTube vid: https://youtu.be/D3mNn0btW6s

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Journal article: https://www.harvard.co.uk/the-impact-of-technology-on-the-words-we-use/

Works Cited

Bures, Sarah. “Exploring the invisible impact of technology.” The New York Times, 6 May

2020,https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/reader-center/ontech-newsletter-writer.html.

Accessed 18 March 2022.

Beaumont, Nick. “The Impact of Technology on Words We Use.” Harvard, 11 February

2021,https://www.harvard.co.uk/the-impact-of-technology-on-the-words-we-use/.

Accessed 19 March 2022.

Dillard, Grant. “The Impact of Technology on Communication.” Youtube, 26 November 2018,

https://youtu.be/D3mNn0btW6s. Accessed 18 March 2022.