Crystal Howell K. Squires English 101 22 January 2017 Data Saturation: Compare and Contrast The world today is everchanging always coming out with new technology and information. Information in today’s society is available on many social forums such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, also you can access information on our devices like our laptops, cell phones, and tablets. So many different ways to have our information gleaned is changing the way we process this vast data is apparently changing our thought process. The world -wide web has made our lives easier but effected how our brains process the information is also changing our attention span. According to Carr reading is not a skill humans are born with it is a skill that is developed …show more content…
People can’t focus on the data that’s in front of them for long periods of time they are losing the skill of absorbing the text . Carr acknowledges his attention diminishes after reading two or three pages and “bounces” to another source of information (57). Carr adds the skill of reading is being lost due to the internet’s pull of instant information that would have taken a trip to the library to obtain. Moreover, the skill deep reading is being replaced by “skimming” information on various internet sources according to Carr (58). People don’t like to spend long hours in libraries reading a pile of text books when you can find it on the internet in an instant cutting the time in half easily …show more content…
Carr and Keohane are both talking about how our brain processes information and effects our inner thoughts and how there is a “glut” of information out there (Keohane). For example, in Carr’s article he states “the media or other technologies we use in learning the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits in our brains”(62). Keohane differs when he talks about how the vast information we gather is interpreted wrong because we use the data to reinforce our beliefs thus getting it wrong while thinking it is right. We dismiss information that does not align with our beliefs this is called “motivation reasoning”, Carr focuses on the issue of reading and how distracted we become due to technology overload while trying to absorb the information and how we process it. Koehane differs in that it is more about processing the factual data rather than based on our belief