Naomi S Baron

Biographic Data

ID110452
NAMENaomi S Baron
GIVEN NAMESNaomi S
FAMILY NAMEBaron
SIGNATUREBARON N S
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
ORCID0000-0003-4624-6092
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS124
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX6

  • Know what? How digital technologies undermine learning and remembering

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2021Cited by: 4References: 42

  • Doing the Reading: The Decline of Long Long-Form Reading in Higher Education

    Naomi S Baron, Anne MangenARTICLEPoetics Today2021Cited by: 7References: 17

    Long-form reading of literary and non-literary texts is historically an essential component of education. However, in many schooling contexts, the amount of long-form reading is diminishing. Are digital technologies augmenting this trend? And are these technologies affecting assignments and student reading patterns in other ways? This article begins by arguing for the relevance of long-form reading and then reviews prior research on how much assi…

  • Does Mobile Matter?

    Naomi S BaronCHAPTERRoutledge Companion to Mobile Media2015

  • Shall We Talk? Conversing With Humans and Robots

    Naomi S BaronARTICLEThe Information Society2015Cited by: 1References: 24

    While social robots are the creation of human beings, it is not obvious what kinds of conversation people desire to have with computer-based devices. Progressive improvements in speech recognition, natural language parsing, and physical embodiment are making it technologically possible for social robots to engage with humans in essentially the full range of conversational modes that we do with one another. However, when we examine the variety of …

  • “Girls Text Really Weird”: Gender, Texting and Identity Among Teens

    Ruizhe Ling, Rich Ling et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2014

    This article examines the strategies used by teenagers for interacting with members of the opposite sex when texting. This article uses material from a series of nine focus groups from 2009 in four US cities. It reports on the strategies they use and the problems they encounter as they negotiate this portion of their lives. Texting is a direct, person-to-person venue where they can develop their gendered identity and also investigate romantic int…

  • Gender and mobile phones in cross-national context

    Open AccessNaomi S Baron, Elise M CampbellARTICLELanguage Sciences2012Cited by: 2References: 35

  • Concerns about mobile phones: A cross-national study

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLEFirst Monday2011

    Mobile phones allow people to communicate when, where, and with whom they wish. However, users are often troubled to find themselves always available to others. To measure attitudes towards mobile phones, we asked students from universities in five countries what they liked most and what they liked least about having a mobile phone. Responses across all countries indicated that communication was both what subjects liked most and least — enjoying …

  • Introduction to special section: Mobile phones in cross-cultural context: Sweden, Estonia, the USA and Japan

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLENew Media & Society2010Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Cross-cultural patterns in mobile-phone use: Public space and reachability in Sweden, the USA and Japan

    Open AccessNaomi S Baron, Ylva Hård Af SegerstadARTICLENew Media & Society2010Cited by: 21References: 1

    Contemporary mobile-phone technology is becoming increasingly similar around the world. However, cultural differences between countries may also shape mobile-phone practices. This study examines a group of variables connected to mobile-phone use among university students in Sweden, the USA and Japan. Key cultural issues addressed are attitudes towards quiet in public space, personal use of public space and tolerance of self-expression. Measures i…

  • Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World

    Naomi S BaronBOOKAlways On2008

    Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing.

  • Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data

    Open AccessRuizhe Ling, Rich Ling et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2007Cited by: 7References: 2

    While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation. We examine our findings in light of other statistical studies of…

  • Dick and Jane meet HTML

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLELanguage Sciences2005

  • Who Wants to Be a Discipline

    Naomi S BaronARTICLEThe Information Society2005

    In contemporary times, two primary motivations have driven academics to attempt to form new intellectual disciplines. The first motivation is intrinsic to the subject matter at issue: Either old disciplinary questions need to be examined in new ways (as in the creation of sociolinguistics out of linguistics and sociology) or the field itself is novel (for example, computer science). The second motivation is more political: Unlike "areas of inquir…

  • Rethinking written culture

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLELanguage Sciences2004

  • See you Online: Gender Issues in College Student Use of Instant Messaging

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2004Cited by: 26References: 31

    Instant Messaging (IM) is becoming a mainstay for online one-to-one communication. Although IM is popularly described as a written version of informal speech, little empirical investigation of the linguistic nature of IM exists. Moreover, although gender issues are being addressed for one-to-many forms of computer-mediated communication, we have no comparable studies of IM. This article offers a linguistic profile of American college student IM c…

  • Who Sets E-Mail Style? Prescriptivism, Coping Strategies, and Democratizing Communication Access

    Naomi S BaronARTICLEThe Information Society2002Cited by: 8References: 15

    Stylistic practices in email reflect an amalgam of social presuppositions about usage conventions and individual strategies for handling a new language medium. To understand how contemporary email patterns have been forged and where they might be heading, this study examines the ways in which newly enfranchised language users in the past have balanced externally-generated prescriptions for linguistic style with user-generated coping strategies in…

  • Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

    John Katunich, Naomi S Baron et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly2001

  • Commas and canaries: The Role of Punctuation in Speech and Writing

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLELanguage Sciences2001Cited by: 2References: 21

  • Letters by phone or speech by other means: The Linguistics of Email

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLELanguage & Communication1998Cited by: 40References: 16

  • Who Talks Funny

    Naomi S Baron, Brenda S CoxARTICLELanguage1996

  • Do words have meanings? Dictionaries, definitions, and context

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLESemiotica1994

  • Computers and Carburetors: The New Cognitive Dissonance

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…1988

  • Computers and Language: A Symbiotic Mix

    Naomi S BaronARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies1988

  • The Roots of Language

    Naomi S Baron, Philosophy Documentation CenterARTICLENew Vico Studies1985

  • From universal language to language origin: The problem of shared referents

    Open AccessNaomi S BaronARTICLESemiotica1985