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02 Apr 08

Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read - Even Kids - They Just Do It Online - ReadWriteWeb

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The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."
young news readers are less likely to read printed newspapers
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- The problem is not in readership decline, it seems, but in teen readership decline.
- the younger generation like to consume media for free and they have come to expect free content through online extensions.
- So is a diet of only digital media bad?
- I wonder if reading novels is really better for you than reading online source about current events in terms of stretching your mind.
- And because of blogs, forums, and email, I probably write several dozen pages worth of text each week, which is probably more than many members of previous generations can claim!
  - It is perhaps not accurate to consider all kinds of writing, as well as all kinds of reading, as equivalent. This lack of distinction between different types or levels of reading/writing looks like a major flaw in most of teh discussion about reading decline, etc.. - on 2008-04-02
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- What is txt'ing if it's not reading?
- It's extremely helpful to use hyperlinks to flow between information, especially if you need to find specific interest points, but it hinders as you haven't had the full picture as the author intended.
  - Digital reading (but the story began much much earlier) tends to reduce information to facts, which is a good thing when you are looking for facts. But the thinking part, the "knowledge" part is now up to you, with little help. See Wikipedia, which is unchallenged (more and more) to give facts but totaly lacking of style in the writing of the articles. - on 2008-04-02
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- An article now should be constructed with an executive summary (less than 100 words, preferably less than 255 charcaters), and links to directly related information. If the entire article if covering a range of different topics, then it should be split into different posts. The entire Article length should not be more than two pages of A4. Otherwise it's rambling and should be split across more than one article.
- Reading fiction is being replaced by multimedia story-telling (on the web, TV, movies, elsewhere).
- I asked Steve Jobs about your post, and he said that people don't read posts that long any more.
- Yes, I read the Newspaper and news online, but I have become a big Science and non-fiction reader now.. I find myself buying books and looking for used book stores or the local library....So, on the weekends. I am reading more then ever beofore...
  
  The secrete about the internet is that you need to know how to read to use it...
- Give people a mobile reading capable phone (e.g. iPhone) and great reading tool (e.g. www.textonphone.com for iPhone book reading) and people will quickly replace their other mobile snacking activities with the book reading.
- I am sure I am not alone in being able to say that I have never read as much during my life as in recent years
- I did watch way too much TV

Response, Sunil Iyengar and Mark Bauerlein: There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Steven Johnson diminished the significance of reading problems in the Britain and the United States, and misrepresented our research into the issue
"From undergraduates to professors, people exhibit a strong tendency towards shallow, horizontal, 'flicking' behaviour in digital libraries. Power browsing and viewing appear to be the norm for all ... Society is dumbing down."

Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian

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if people are reading less, why haven't scores dropped more dramatically? The answer gets to the most significant sleight of hand of the NEA study: its studies are heavily biased towards words on a printed page
A recent study by the British Library of onscreen research activities found that "new forms of 'reading' are emerging as users 'power browse' ... "
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- "Whatever the benefits of newer electronic media, they provide no measurable substitute for the intellectual and personal development initiated and sustained by frequent reading."
- The only reason the intellectual benefits are not measurable is that they haven't been measured yet. There have been almost no studies that have looked at the potential positive impact of electronic media.
- I challenge the NEA to track the economic status of obsessive novel readers and obsessive computer programmers over the next 10 years. Which group will have more professional success in this climate?
- internet users generally are better educated and more interested politically. And among young people under 30, use of the internet to learn about the campaign has a greater impact on knowledge than does level of education.

The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought - Publishing 2.0

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I was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone
there’s something about the print vs. online dialectic that always seemed superficial to me.
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- Books are linear and foster concentration and focus, while the web, with all its hyperlinks, is kinetic, scattered, all over the place.
- If I’m such a digital guy, then why do I have no interest in ebooks?
- What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?
- We still retain an 18th Century bias towards linear thought.
  - Why 18th Century? Non-linear reading and in consequence praise for linear reading vs non-linear is way older. See Illich about monastic vs scholastic reading. - on 2008-04-02
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- When I read online, I constantly follow links from one item to the next, often forgetting where I started. Sometimes I backtrack to one content “node” and jump off in different directions. There are nodes that I come back to repeatedly, like TechMeme and Google, only to start down new branches of the network.
- Is there such a thing as networked human thought? Certain there is among a group of people enabled by a network — but what about for an individual, processing information via the web’s network?
- online reading has a very important negative result:
  
  lack of concentration.
- Before reading, people networked to obtain and validate information.
- The real question is how we manage the change from linear cognition to non-linear cognition.
- Are we going to recognize that this is an evolution in human consciousness and start valuing the types of effects that non-linear thought processes elicit? OR will we treat this as a plague to be eradicated and spend untold sums of money and energy trying to kill off the next great leap in human development?
- I don’t feel a lack of concentration while reading/absorbing info in this way - if anything I feel it’s easier to concentrate for me. Isn’t that weird? Maybe it’s because I’m following my own train of thought (in the sense that I’m determining the narrative by deciding where to go next) rather than someone else’s?
- When I do read fiction I find that I can’t put it down until I have read the whole story.
- No fiction at all.

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Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read - Even Kids - They Just Do It Online - ReadWriteWeb

Response, Sunil Iyengar and Mark Bauerlein: There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading | Comment is free | The Guardian

Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian

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