Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading
In the article, “Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading” by Ursula K. Le Guin, she states that the demise of reading is...
TED Talk: Txting is Killing Language. JK!!!
In the TED Talk by John McWhorter, he begins to tell us how people believe that texting is a terrible thing and that it is the sign of...
TED Talk: What Makes a Word Real?
English professor Anne Curzan opens her talk on Ted by telling the audience that before she begins her classes, she asks her students to...
How Reading Makes Us More Human
In “How Reading Makes Us More Human”, Karen Prior highlights points about why we, as a society, value the learned skill of reading....
Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
In "Does the Internet Make You Dumber?" by Nicholas Carr he explains how the attention span of human are slowly deteriorating. Carr says...
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...
Reading to Have Read
"Reading to have Read" by Ian Bogost is about how humans have become so incorporated with the media and its infinite information that...
