Yes, according to Ben Macintyre in his column at The Times of London. Here's how he opens: Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing. The [...]
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The Web is Like Marriage
October 21, 2009 – 9:25 AM
At least that's what Tyler Cowen argues in the latest issue of The Wilson Quarterly. In his essay, "Three Tweets for the Web" Cowen goes against the grain of conventional wisdom that says the Internet is dumbing down America.