Their lives are increasingly organized around updating their electronic gadgets, communicating with each other in small, ongoing text-bites, curating their various online identities and migrating to complex virtual experiences.
It's a sobering if not downright frightening report on eroding attention-skills among today's high schoolers, who increasingly forsake their summer reading -- and sustained reading of any sort -- in favor of video games and sites like Facebook and YouTube, not to mention ongoing texting sessions.
"I have ongoing group texts that are very annoying but necessary with other diversity leaders," Williams said.
But it does not really matter, because with their blurring of the boundaries of figuration and abstraction, his paintings, too, in their own way, invite us to consider the ongoing overlap of text and image in art.
In a Judicial Studies Board lecture in Belfast last month, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, said: "How is the principle of open justice compatible with preventing an ongoing, live and text-based dialogue to the outside world from a courtroom?
While negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest and oldest left-wing rebel group in the country, have been ongoing since November 2012, the texts of preliminary agreements on political participation, "illicit crop" production, and rural development were only made available to the public last month.
In the end, too, what's being created here isn't only an arbitrary system of flighty ideas and hidden logics but a work of literature devised specifically for its reader, an ongoing set of texts created in a series numbered only ever one of one.
However, our approach is better in tune with ongoing issues in text-mining such as feature selection and fusion of literature and biological databases [ 2].
