![]() Here is a far more nuanced story of a teenage girl's "newsgathering process", which alternates between "grazing" and a "deep dive", when she wants to know more about a particular topic and will indeed read in-depth.įor Carr, though, we are just pitiable slaves to the machine. In Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (375pp, Basic Books, £9.99), by contrast, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser have actually bothered to find out what young people do online, rather than just assuming them to be glazed, distracted skimmers. ![]() In other words, people who used the internet regularly had not lost the ability to read books after all. ![]() An experiment showed web novices' brains changing in response to internet use, but it also showed "no significant difference in brain activity" between the novices and a web-savvy control group when both were engaged in "a simulation of book reading". Carr cites a bit of psychology and neuroscience, but he doesn't seem to notice that the study he unveils most triumphantly actually refutes half of his own argument. ![]()
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