The Reading Brain in the Digital Age

In “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens”, Ferris Jabr argues the importance of why reading print materials is more beneficial than reading digital material. He points out the physicality of reading and how your brain physically reacts to reading print material. Jabr also explains how technology companies are inventing their e-books to look more like actual books. Although he advocates for reading print materials rather than on a screen, he does show that people that read on screens’ comprehension levels are very similar to those that read print text.

No one ever thinks of reading being a physical activity, such as running or playing a sport. That is why we chose this article, because of the argument discussed that reading is a physical activity that people do not have the time for anymore. They do not have the time to sit down and completely immerse themselves in the text and analyze the deep meanings and rhetoric of a text. Key words such as digital natives, convenience, adequately recreate, physical, ease, and effectively reiterate the way society values effieciency in the way people read because in today's world, there is not enough time to sit down and read a book. The way technology is evolving around reading and how inventors are creating e-books that look like paper back books is another point that drove us to choose this article. These are all arguments that revert back to our central focus.

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