How the web is undermining reading

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How the web is undermining reading From Plato to Guitar Hero, we have always been wary of change - but the internet poses a serious threat to society's ability to read

By Naomi Alderman
www.guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 20 January 2009 12.00 GMT

Naomi Alderman in this article seems very preoccupy with the impact of the Web in reading. She argues, in like manner TV make a fall in reading habit a long 20th century, now Web can deeply this tendency. Naomi Alderman say: “Recent studies have indicated that online reading tends to break down in the face of ‘texts that require steady focus and linear attention’.” The “recent studies” cited are the Jakob Nielsen, discussed in article of Chronicle Review (reference: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm ) subscribe for Mark Bauerlein.

I think which Naomi Alderman is exaggerated in her preoccupation. The habit of reading, in my own view, increase within internet. And write too. The phenomenon of exponential increase of quantity of Blog is an aspect of it. The reading/writing process will be deeply transformed in the Web age. And each time more, but this transformation is not a disfiguration of the intellectual powers of people, as seems in Naomi Alderman article. Is a different way of those.

C.M.J.

References: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/20/internet-homer
And http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm.