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Erik Hoel's avatar

If your submission was not included in any of the parts, please know that it was not because I hated it. It was because it got eaten by the email black hole of a spam filter. Send it again or respond to it so I can figure out what happened.

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T. Scott Plutchak's avatar

Erik -- thanks so much for including "Gutenberg and the Whirlwind"! I really appreciate it. Two quick responses to your gloss: one of the big differences between social media and television is that the phone is always with you and you're actively engaged with it, making it a blistering hot medium (in McLuhanesque terms) rather than cool passive TV; and here in the deep south (I'm in Alabama) the battles going on in public and school libraries indicate that we still have a very complicated relationship with books. Anyway, I'm working on another piece that extends some of these themes, going into more detail about how my granddaughter incorporates her phone use into her life.

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