I don’t know about you, but I’ve never associated the word “chronic” with anything positive. Can you blame me. It’s always slapped in front of some word like “bronchitis” which makes whatever you’re talking about 10x worse. I guess you can call me close-minded, sue me.
We live in a terminally online society with a chronic multitasking problem. What helped me come to this conclusion was when I sat down and pulled apart two pieces about chronic internet use and multitasking. If I’m being honest, I never really dissected an article—not in depth at least, until recently. I find this topic extremely interesting especially now. Everyone’s head seems to be forever up their own asses because they consider themselves “chronically online.” If you don’t understand something, they bitch at you. Why? No idea.
Amicucci argues that social media can be essential to teaching someone about college referring to intertextuality and interdiscursivity. In short intertextuality is when someone explicitly borrows ideas from another text (think quoting someone else’s writing or using memes) while interdiscursivity is when someone implicitly borrows the rhetorical choices and another text or write (think formatting a paper a certain way because another text does it that way). Everything we write builds on ideas and texts that’s come before us. She then turns to internet memes and challenges, connecting it to how we bounce off the works of others with our writing. Think Tiktok challenges, we can replicate an essay and make it our own—no, this is not a PRO-PLAGURISIM argument but instead a way to think when approaching a paper. It makes sense in some weird, almost surreal way.
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