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Jan. 18th, 2014
Book Dreams
Jan. 18th, 2014 01:17 pmNicholas Carr gives book lovers a great essay that confirms the power of literary reading. In the Internet world of today there has been some thought that traditional books will be going the way of the dinosaur:
Jeff Jarvis, a media consultant who teaches journalism at the City University of New York, gave voice to this way of thinking in a post on his blog. Claiming that printed pages “create, at best, a one-way relationship with a reader,” he concluded that, in the internet era, “the book is an outdated means of communicating information.” He declared that “print is where words go to die.”
Mr. Carr gives us some neuroscience on how good it is for the soul to enjoy some solitude and a little quality time with the written word, free of hyperlinks and tweets and e-mail notifications. Here is a good taste of that argument, but the whole essay is worth the read.
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Jeff Jarvis, a media consultant who teaches journalism at the City University of New York, gave voice to this way of thinking in a post on his blog. Claiming that printed pages “create, at best, a one-way relationship with a reader,” he concluded that, in the internet era, “the book is an outdated means of communicating information.” He declared that “print is where words go to die.”
Mr. Carr gives us some neuroscience on how good it is for the soul to enjoy some solitude and a little quality time with the written word, free of hyperlinks and tweets and e-mail notifications. Here is a good taste of that argument, but the whole essay is worth the read.
( Read more... )