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Older readers will remember that it used to be that the internet was divided into pages, and when you got to the bottom of one page, you had to decide to click a button to get to the next page. It was an active choice. It gave you a moment to pause and ask: Do I want to carry on looking at this?
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
Ed Simon, November 25lithub.com
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In its place, we are cultivating habits of skimming, scanning, and superficial intake. Modes better suited to consuming than to understanding. This is not merely a shift in preference; it is a rewiring of cognition. The reading brain, once forged by sustained attention and deep engagement, is now adapting to an environment built for speed,... See more
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
By contrast, at its most successful, an algorithmic “honing in” would seem to incrementally entomb me as an ever-more stable image of what I like and why. It
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
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