Tuesday, October 27, 2009

us stupid? from google no less?

i know, i know no one likes being called stupid, but that not the point of writer Nicholas Carr. what he is simply stateing is how we tend to look for spacific information when we research things on the internet and in real life, so we don't tend to take in the infromation. he qoutes someone about others like him and one of them states [“I was a lit major in college, and used to be [a] voracious book reader,” (scott karp) ](par 5). while this refers to other english he has also found some information relating to avereg people like you and me. "They found that people using the sites exhibited [“a form of skimming activity,”] hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would [“bounce”] out to another site."(par 7). He also adds an ionteresting qoute from a woman named, Maryanne Wolf, and the qoute is [we are not what we read... we are how we read](8/9 par)

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