Susan E. Cook, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Southern New Hampshire University In Part 1 and Part 2 of this post I described Nicholas Carr’s argument about digital vs. print reading, and described my own experience reading East Lynne using a nineteenth-century print edition rather than a more contemporary edition. It is my sense that Carr flattens out the print/digital reading question by treating each more or less monolithically, describing print reading as “deep” reading and digital as “shallow.”
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Susan E. Cook: Deep Reading the Victorians (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 1 of this post I described Nicholas Carr’s thesis about the cognitive differences between digital and print reading, and suggested that it would be worth troubling the category of “print reading” a bit further by considering the ways print has changed over time. Below I detail the first part of my print reading experiment. For my own nineteenth-century reading experiment text I selected Mrs. Henry Wood’s East Lynne. I selected it because I had never read it before
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Susan E. Cook, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Southern New Hampshire University What is it like to read in the 21st century? How does technology impact our reading practices? How does the shift from print to digital impact the way we read—and how does the shift from older printing techniques to contemporary ones also impact our reading? In his 2010 book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, science and technology writer Nicholas Carr employs cultural critique
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