New College English Comprehensive Course Unit 2 The Third Text Generation Gap: Translation of Old Texts

As the president of children's books and magazines publishing department of Walter Disney Company, Russell Hampton knows a thing or two about teenagers. As he expected, until last year, he drove his 14-year-old daughter Katie and two friends to Los Angeles. Skip to the next paragraph. Sylwia developed this picture for Kapuscinski of the new york Times and his mother Mary in New Jersey. She said that Leiden's text messages made it easy for them to keep in touch. "Katie and her friends are sitting in the back seat, talking to each other. About some movie stars, I think it's Orlando Blue. " In retrospect, his company produced Mr. Hampton, the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, and the actors' comments. "I did something about him, I can't remember it clearly, but I got a typical teenager's throat sigh. Her eyes looked at me, and Katie turned around as if to say, "When Mr. Hampton looked in the rearview mirror, he saw his daughter talking on her cell phone." . "Katie, you shouldn't give it," Mr. Wang told her. "Hampton recalled that your friend was there. It's impolite to look at it. " Katie rolled her eyes. "But, Dad, we send each other," she replied, with a snort. "I don't want you to listen to what I am saying." After the pain, they turned their attention back to the highway in Hampton. This is a common scene. Nowadays, cars, kitchens and bedrooms are being displayed all over the country. Children increasingly rely on personal technical devices such as mobile phones to define themselves, build social circles from their families and change the way they communicate with their parents. Of course, innovation always encourages extensive social change. Just as the telephone has become ubiquitous for a century, adults and teenagers have also discovered a private and relaxed way of communication that Alexander did not know. Graham. Bell and his daughters. Cars eventually come and go. In this era, teenagers can stay away from the vigilant company dating. Computers and the Internet have also given very young children unique parents, brothers and sisters, who live an independent virtual life. Business analysts and other researchers believe that mobile phones-along with mobility and intimacy-can be further developed and accelerated. According to the tracking technology and consumption research of IDC Han Ming Research Company in Massachusetts, by May 24, 1965, 865,438+0% of Americans will have their mobile phones, compared with 53% in 2005. Social psychologists like Professor Shirley Turkel, who studies social influence on mobile communication at MIT, say that these trends may also evolve into mini laptops, social machines and small movie screens with mobile phones. "For children, this has become a goal of shaping identity and changing psychology," Ms. Turkel said. "No one can create a new technology and really understand how it is used or how it changes society." Businessmen and mobile phone manufacturers will only happily fill the generation gap. Last autumn, the "firefly mobile communication" was launched for preschool children; It has a set of small keyboards, in which two speed dial buttons are images of mother and father. At&T Company. T company's TV advertisement promoting wireless communication service taunts a mother who doesn't understand her daughter's mobile phone language. In fact, IDC said that the sales of labor services and products to young consumers or parents are expected to increase to $29 billion and $2 10 billion in 2005. So far, parents' ability to get in touch with their children, whether providing a family or not, has more advantages than disadvantages. Some divorced Mr Hampton said it was easy to contact Katie. Even if they live in different time zones. And college students should hurry up, like Ben? Vanderbilt University, a freshman who plays baseball in Brandon, can ask both parents to go to work, or just say hello at a convenient time. "Texting is between making a phone call and sending an email," he explained when considering stopping the room. He said that he would not even consider writing to his mother now because it was "too time-consuming". "You must go to the post office. Instead, I can sit and watch TV and send text messages, which is one thing. " However, like all cultural changes involving parents and children-for example, the birth of rock music or the sexual revolution in the 1960s-various gaps have emerged. Baby boomers warned that their parents who were divorced from reality decades ago could not trust them. Now they sometimes find that they have to raise their children-thanks to the Internet and mobile phones-and it is incompetent to consider their parents.