[Stylist] Attention spans

[David Andrews]

That isn't the one I recently read, it was about "stolen focus" I believe.

Dave

At 02:24 PM 4/9/2023, Bill Meeker and Cheryl Orgas wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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>
>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