Madrid, June 6 (Reuters) -. Digital natives, the generation that has been born in a networked and digital world, are the weakest link in the chain link linguistic correctness and risk, if the education system does not correct it, of oversimplifying language and therefore thought.
That’s one of the conclusions of the IX International Seminar on Language and Journalism, held last week and have released today its organizers, the Foundation of Urgent Spanish (Fundéu BBVA) and San Millan Foundation Cogolla.
The meeting, the Princess of Asturias inaugurated with an appeal to an essential element of rigor the practice of journalism, attended linguists, journalists and experts in social networks and computer processing of language, who discussed how the new digital media environment may be influencing the Spanish of today and how it will do in the future.
The conclusions of the seminar highlighted the coexistence in the field of digital texts written with linguistic quality criteria comparable to that of traditional media with other formats and governed by immediacy, often private or semi-private media, writings far from the standard way.
The tendency to write what is pronounced by removing or adding other letters (“aora Thin Man”), the removal of double letters (“Exar” to “take”) , removing punctuation marks (“you come from?”) or use as part of emoticons (“:-)”), are just a few features of this type of digital communication.
As the reduction words to their consonants (“dnd KDMS?”), expressive lengthening (“Koha”), abbreviations and the use of symbols and numbers (“tkm” “+ o-” or “sl2″) or the expressive use of capitals as shouting.
For the experts at San Millán some of them “are threatening” linguistic norms that achieve both cost-only since 1927 can speak of a real Spanish orthographic unit.
While these forms constitute a simple shift register, a form of expression that can be alternated with other more “formal”, is not serious, said the findings, which warn of the risk that digital natives learn only to manage these new codes, which would lead to a simplification of language and, therefore, “a reduction of critical thinking.”
It is therefore essential, added that the education system to ensure that these new generations, “in addition to these new records, can operate with ease in more formal.”
In the various committees held during the seminar was also addressed how the new digital environment affects the role of the journalist and his way of using language.
Absence in the digital environment context that facilitate traditional media and the many ways in which a reader can get to make news, for example, that “owners charged renewed importance. “
As with having to use a language recognizable by search engines, the need to constantly jump from one format to another.
The combination of formats traditional with new ones as the “minute by minute” and the debate on the contrast between short and longer content led to the conclusion that “the short genres have to give the counterpoint of a slower and thoughtful journalism” and the warning that “it is not that long journalism not interested; not interested in bad journalism. “
The conclusions of the seminar can be found on the website of Fundéu BBVA (www.fundeu.es) also mentioned that social networks” are the perfect field training in both journalism and other forms of narrative. “
Besides in journalism today,” unidirectionality is over “because it has created” a new communication experience “with a reader, more that is already “connected person”.
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