[Stylist] Attention spans

[Bill Meeker and Cheryl Orgas]

Sounds like this one. I read it some years ago and it rings true.

Thanks a lot Mark There's-One-Born-Every-Minute Suckerberg.

Bill Meeker

BARD
The shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains DB 74072
Carr, Nicholas G. Reading time 9 hours, 47 minutes.
Read by Bill Wallace. A production of the National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Subjects: Psychology and Self-Help; Computers

Description: Journalist Carr expands upon his 2008 article in The Atlantic
Monthly entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Citing neurology research, he
argues that humans are losing our capacity for concentration, contemplation,
and reflection as advancing technology changes our neural pathways. Pulitzer
Prize finalist. 2010.

Digital talking book. 1 level and 22 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
ISBN: 9780393072228, New York : W.W. Norton, c2010., Recorded from:
Full audio with structure. System requirements: NLS authorized ANSI/NISO
Z39.86-2002 digital talking book (dtb) player compatible with NLS flash
cartridges. Web version requires computer with Internet access, BARD
password and NLS authorized digital talking book player. Contact your
cooperating library or the National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, for more information.
Neuropsychology; Physiological effect; Psychological aspects; Talking books;
Downloadable books; Nonfiction; Internet



-----Original Message-----
From: Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
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Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2023 1:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Stylist] Attention spans

There was a book, recently, on NLS BARD that talks about this and 
related subjects.

The evidence is pretty compelling that for most people attention span 
and ability to focus has decreased.

Dave

At 01:09 AM 3/29/2023, Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist wrote:
>Hi All,
>I was wondering if anyone else has noticed their attention spans for 
>reading books are shorter with the increasing use of the Internet 
>and social media?
>I find that mine seems to have declined over the years. When I was 
>really young, Braille book and digital book availability were very 
>limited, and I literally read whatever I could get my finger on.
>Now I find that, with books where I feel the plot is slow-moving, I 
>am quick to move on. I need to be captivated by the first few 
>sentences in a short story (well, ideally, the first sentence) to 
>get engrossed by it.
>There's also the fact that you no longer need to read a very large 
>book to learn about an event in history: you can now just take a 
>very brief (and definitely less deep) trivia quiz on it.
>I'm curious to hear others' thoughts on this!
>Vejas


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