Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Is Google Making Us Stupid -Summery
In our section of the article Wolf explains that "we are not only what we read, we are how we read." In saying this she explains that she is worried about our reading styles going from the deep reading from the technologies of the past; ie printing presses, to a type of "efficiency" and "immediacy" style missing out on the who experience that the book/ authors are giving to us. She also states that reading is not instinctive to us as it is not "etched'" in to our genes as speech is. We as children learn to talk alot earlier then learning to interpret strange symbols in to words in languages we understand. It also points out a fact about experiments in the past that show that readers of ideograms like Chinese, make the brain function different then how it does for those that read acully languages that are based on words. In knowing this fact our ability to interpret info is different when it comes to deep reading and is largely disengaged. In the reading that we do on the net makes our brain functions are alot different as they are faster and in parts and pieces.
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