The art of slow reading

Os textos mais e mais curtos e superficiais da internet têm nos feito mais burros? Um número cada vez maior de especialistas acha que sim - e diz que é hora de pisar no freio...

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So are we getting stupider? Is that what this is about? Sort of. According to The Shallows, a new book by technology sage Nicholas Carr, our hyperactive online habits are damaging the mental faculties we need to process and understand lengthy textual information. Round-the-clock news feeds leave us hyperlinking from one article to the next – without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content; our reading is frequently interrupted by the ping of the latest email; and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts..."

Foto: Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses,
Long Island, New York, 1954.

Mais em: The Guardian.