Some social information requires particular formats. To know what someonelooks like requires an image, to see their gestures and expressions requires a moving image. One can createa list of participants using text, but to present their relationships in a more complex non-linear orderrequires graphics.
This brings up a multitude of questions. "Some social information requires particular formats. To know what someone looks like requires an image, to see their gestures and expressions requires a moving image. One can create a list of participants using text, but to present their relationships in a more complex non-linear order requires graphics." Many children are now growing up using social media that uses short, jargon sentences, how is this going to affect reading and writing for children? There is more discussion over social media where sentence structure isn't needed to be proper, and I wonder how that's going to show up academically in the future.