Thursday, July 17, 2014

How to Be a Better Online Reader : The New Yorker

Excerpt from a timely reading + comprehension reality check (consider yourself a relevant data point if you start to read the article, shrug tl;dr, and move to another page...)

"Wolf’s concerns go far beyond simple comprehension. She fears that as we turn to digital formats, we may see a negative effect on the process that she calls deep reading. Deep reading isn’t how we approach looking for news or information, or trying to get the gist of something. It’s the “sophisticated comprehension processes,” as Wolf calls it, that those young architects and doctors were missing. “Reading is a bridge to thought,” she says. “And it’s that process that I think is the real endangered aspect of reading. In the young, what happens to the formation of the complete reading circuitry? Will it be short-circuited and have less time to develop the deep-reading processes? And in already developed readers like you and me, will those processes atrophy?”"
How to Be a Better Online Reader : The New Yorker

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