The Dancing Sausage Web Journal

Came up with an idea today to go back and address an issue of Internet literacy I obsessed over earlier but didn’t know how to describe. Some work has been done on children’s understanding of genre and intended audience of television shows. In general, kids are pretty sophisticated in their understanding of genres. They are also good at identifying target audiences, as in “this is for kids” and “this is for adults.” But what about their understanding of themselves as a community of watchers?

Two of them, right in the middle of my scalp.

Our generation is bound to have a very different concept of strangerhood than past ones.

When we hit the first line of the studios piece, about the skyrocketing prices of Manhattan real estate, she went all Old Faithful on my ass about how Manhattan has always had wildly overpriced housing, even back when her grandmother was young. “To live in manhattan, you had to live like a god or you lived like a king. There was no in-between,” she said.