Hooper and Hearth's article, "The Impact of the Internet on Reading Behavior" uses research to create a counterargument for Nicholas Carr's original article which stated that the Internet was causing society to become less intellectually acute. Hooper and Hearth conducted the study in order to answer Carr's question and to reveal to the audience the true effects of the Internet on their intelligence. Due to the scientific evidence, Hooper and Hearth are writing to a well-educated audience who are aware of Carr's claims. Their study clears up any questions about whether the Internet is detrimental to society and knowledge.
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- Oct 2016
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The aim of this research was thus to explore both offline and online reading and determine the impact of the online environment on people’s reading behaviour.
Hooper and Herath use this essay to answer Carr's question about whether or not Google is making its users less intelligent. Hooper and Herath use many sources to come to a conclusion about the relationship of change in reading behavior and Internet usage.
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spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed bythe mere touch of a button.
"Pancake People": the Internet has caused us to be too widely and thinly spread in regard to our intake of information.
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Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking
Carr is still continuing to reinforce that we must not lose track of our ability to think deeply. Although the Internet may make finding information easier and more efficient, we are warned to not allow it to overshadow our own ability to understand and think.
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He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as asubstitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of thedialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”
Allusion to Plato- states that Socrates feared that the written word would overpower knowledge stored in people's minds. This reference from ancient Greece is still relevant today- the power of computers to instantly search for information may overpower human's capability of finding information for ourselves.
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The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a fasterprocessor and a bigger hard drive
The people at Google seem to believe that their system is and will continue to be smarter than the human brain. They are constantly working to advance in the ability to collect knowledge and use it. This idea is unsettling to Carr.
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their desire to turn their search engineinto an artificial intelligence, a HAL-like machine that might be connected directly to our brains. “Theultimate search engine is something as smart as people—or smarter,”
This paragraph ties the 2001: Space Odyssey reference back into the argument. The two founders of Google strive to crate a HAL-like supercomputer that is smarter than humans.
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Drawing on the terabytes of behavioral data it collects through its search engine and other sites, itcarries out thousands of experiments a day, according to the Harvard Business Review, and it uses theresults to refine the algorithms that increasingly control how people find information and extract meaningfrom it.
Google is working to ensure that everything is accurately and precisely systematized for its users. It uses data to reveal how its users' minds work and how they can advance the system.
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it wouldbring about a restructuring not only of industry but of society, creating a utopia of perfect efficienc
This uses an example from Taylor's Industrial revolution quotation stating that while man used to be first, man must now put the system (technology) first as evidence to further support the claim that the Internet is taking control over our lives.
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it’s reprogramming us.
Technology, specifically the Internet, has been slowly reshaping people's minds and thoughts to adapt to the growing technological advancements. This raises the question of whether it is ethically correct.
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The result is to scatter our attention anddiffuse our concentration
This paragraph reinforces the topic: the Internet distracts our concentration by placing so many different ads, slogans, hyperlinks, and images on the page that we can no longer focus on just one solitary item.
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Thanks to our brain’splasticity, the adaptation occurs also at a biological level
Adaptation to technologies is possible due to brain plasticity. Humans also use metaphors to justify the change of technology (ex. our brains operate like computers).
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disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world ofmathematically measurable sequences.
Technologies in the last 6 centuries have begun to expand our mental capacities, however, we must be care that they do not disassociate us from reality.
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, “our writing equipment takes partin the forming of our thoughts.”
The different technologies that we use are the means by which we can communicate and express our ideas.
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Words could once againflow from his mind to the page
Technology overtime has allowed people to continue to communicate and write. This is discussed in the Friedrich Nietzsche example.
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When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our abilityto interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction,remains largely disengaged.
More evidence: reading online, along with text messaging, has changed the way that we take in information. We now read quickly to be efficient which weakens our intake of knowledge and deeper understanding.
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His thinking, he said, has taken on a “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans shortpassages of text from many sources online.
Evidence for the argument: a University of Michigan pathologist now describes his thinking as staccato-like. He can no longer delve into deep works, he scans over things very quickly because he has become adapted to this type of research that has been brought on by the Internet.
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For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium
Argument being stated here: although the Internet allows for easy access to thousands of sources, it is now shaping the process of human thought. It has been taking away the capacity for deep thinking and focus.
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I think I know what’s going on.
The Internet is available at all times and has made many people's lives easier- especially writers. Instead of wasting time searching for something that may be hidden in a journal at the library, people can now do an easy google search and have the answers pop up within seconds.
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ave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads withthe implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end ofStanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by themalfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain.“Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it
This reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey allows the reader to understand the opening point that the writer is making by having the audience make a connection to a popular culture reference. This reference is illustrating that Dave has realized the supercomputer will hurt him rather than help him.
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Socia) scientists call this the "audience effect" -the shift in our performaqce when we know people are watching. I
Audience effect is the shift in human behavior when we realize that we are being watched. For any writer, I'm sure this plays a major role in writing. If you know that many people will be reading your work, you may be more inclined to write in a different style that appeals to your audience. It may even change the way that you would normally communicate. A writer may sound more formal and cautious that casual and colloquial in an attempt to impress the audience. This serves as a sub-claim to the topic because it is additional information to support the main topic. It relates back because while the internet may seem like a casual place to write a blog, many more people have access to it.
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Once thinking is public, connections take over. Anyone who's googled their favorite hobby, food, or political subject has immedi-ately discovered that there's some teeming site devoted to servicing the infinitesimal fraction of the public that shares their otherwise wildly obsc_ure obsession. (Mine: building guitar pedals, modular origami, and. the 1970s anime show Battle of the Planets). Pro-pelled by the hyperlink-the ability of anyone to link to anyone else-the Internet is a connection-making machine. And making connections is a big deal in the history of thought-and its future. That's because of a curious fact: If you look at the world's biggest breakthrough ideas, they often occur simultaneously to different people.
Thompson here is stating her main argument about the importance of public communication over more private forms of writing. The main point of her argument is that writing that is public, such as blogging, will make greater connections with a larger audience. The internet is a major factor in which this can occur which is why blogging is such a beneficial way of publishing work. This relates to the anecdote about Okolloh because blogging is how she got her start. Okolloh began blogging, and with the help of her audience who read her work online, her blog became hugely popular.
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In 2003, Kenyan-born Ory Okolloh was a young law stud~nt who was studying in the United States but still obsessed with Kenyan politics. There was plenty to obsess over. Kenya was a cesspool of government corruption, ranking near the dismal bottom on the Cor-ruption Perceptions Index. Okolloh spent hours and hours talking to her colleagues about it, until eventually one suggested the obvious: Why don't you start a blog? Outside of essays for class, she'd never written anything for an audience. But she was game, so she set up a blog and faced the key-board_ "I had zero ideas about what to say," she recalls. This turned out to be wrong. Over the next seven years, Okolloh revealed a witty, passionate voice, keyed perfectly to online conver-sation. She wrote a .steady stream of posts about the battle against Kenyan corruption, linking to reports of bureaucrats spending enor-mous sums on luxury vehicles and analyzing the "Anglo-leasing scandal," in which the government paid hundreds of millions for services-like producing a new passport system for the country-that were never delivered. When she moved back to Kenya in 2006, she began posting snapshots of such things as the bathtub-sized muddy potholes on the road to the airport. ("And our economy is supposed to be growing how exactly?") Okolloh also wrote about daily life, posting pictures of her baby and discussing the joys of liv-ing in Nairobi, including cabdrivers so friendly they'd run erra
The moral of the anecdote about Ory Okolloh is that anyone can take up language and express themselves in their way. Specifically this story could be used to help convince peple to begin blogging if they have never done it before or if they are hesitant about it. Okolloh was an unlikely person to become a famously read blogger because of the environment that she grew up in, however, through exploration and perseverance, she was able to accomplish her goal of becoming a popular blogger. Through blogging, she was truly able to express her self and her thoughts.
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