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What How Are You Reading?
[SUMMARY—Book vs screen.]
(WORLD) There's a nice NYTimes article discussing the virtues of paper-based reading compared to online reading. They explore many positions and it's a must-read for anyone involved in social media, young people, media literacy and/or education.
The article details discussions from many camps with opinions like:
What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading.
…and:
It takes a long time to read a 400-page book. In a tenth of the time, the Internet allows a reader to cover a lot more of the topic from different points of view.
It's a balanced arugment highlighting the new type of reading which is neither taught nor evaluated in school against the lack of contextualising framing the web can sometimes fail to offer. I guess the real issue is that the mediums and mechanisms by which to read has surpassed the means and strategies by which to teach (contextualise) them.
I'll leave you with one more quote:
Books aren't out of the picture, but they're only one way of experiencing information in the world today.
Filed by DK on July 27 2008
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