Summary Of The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains

Introduction

The 21st century increasingly allows easier access to an abundance of information usually consumed via the World Wide Web, also known as the Internet. Users may be reading an article online, until they receive an instant message with a link to a photo, which of course they share, leading users to check their Facebook news wall, and meanwhile sending you to a video of a gorilla snatching a child at the zoo, which finally sends you to Wikipedia to learn about the violent behaviour of Gorillas. Nevertheless, this is what three minutes on the Internet can be like. We live like this most of the time, and it has to have some effect on us. Nicholas Carr (2010) author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains is a scholar

In terms of technology that allows for digital reading, like tablets or even phones, these increasingly smaller devices enable efficient service and offers an abundance of information. Dr. Larson teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in areas of literacy, instructional technologies, and assessment; she believes digital reading is not a new phenomenon, but the recent deluge of digital reading devices such as Apple and Android devices, Amazon Kindle, and Noble Nook, has added to the convenience and frequency of digital reading. Without the help of the internet, almost none of these newer digital reading technologies would be capable or even for the masses. “Today’s e-book technologies offer new possibilities to manipulate and control text factors that support comprehension and enhance the reading experience” (Larson,

In the past, their value of information was valued very high while attention was valued very low. In the future, the value of information such as the stuff being produced would trend towards zero, while the value of attention which is owned by consumers but can be leveraged by companies that help them allocate it, would only rise. Although in the present, there is one pothole that receives a lot of media attention. The term digital divide refers to “inequities of access to technology based on factors of income, education, race, and ethnicity” (O’brien, 2008). Some researchers have suggested that efforts to improve people’s circumstances with technology have gone unfulfilled because the digital divide has been defined as a technical issue rather than as a reflection of broader social issues. (Warschauer, 2007). This issue targets areas in the world that are unable to connect online due to lack financial support or