Digital reading and internet language of web users

Abstract

We live in an era now where means of communication strongly influences people, establishes patterns and ultimately dictate rules. And with the advent of the Internet, a new and specific type of writing is becoming more prevalent; referred to as the Internetês (“Netese”). This new mode of expression presents characteristics of both a written and oral code, with a wide-array of calculated words, foreign expressions, neologisms, acronyms, abbreviations, drawings, icons, symbols, etc. What is interesting is that each has a sense and purpose, and to decipher them is not an easy task; mainly for those who don’t have a lot of knowledge of or practice on the Internet. But how to act or react when the Internetês knocks at the classroom’s door? The objective of this article isn't to defend or to reject the use of Internetês, but rather to seek to reveal the two sides of it, both good and bad, as long as we know that it is complicated to abolish its use in the classroom, then, maybe it can serve as a potential for the cognitive development of subject learning.