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

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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 …show more content…

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, …show more content…

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