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"The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr. What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Summary of Part I with Quotes. Multi-modal response by Jeanne M. Myers LAI 678. "The medium is the message.". Marshall McLuhan, 1964.
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"The Shallows"by Nicholas Carr What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Summary of Part I with Quotes • Multi-modal response by • Jeanne M. Myers • LAI 678
"The medium is the message." • Marshall McLuhan, 1964
"We are evolving from becoming the cultivators of personal knowledge to being the hunters in the electronic data forest" • Nicholas Carr, 2010
"Media work their magic or their mischief on the nervous system itself."
"I can't get my students to read whole books anymore."Duke University Professor Katherine Haylesabouther literary students, 2008.
"Our writing equipment takes a part in the forming of our thoughts."Nietzsche (unknown date)
Dave, my mind is going,” said HAL “I can feel it, I can feel it!” Stanley Kubric, 2001 Space Odyssey
Now the mainstream is being diverted quickly and decisively into a new channel. (Carr, 2010)
The new world will remain of course a literate world, packaged with the familiar symbols of the alphabet. (Ong, Orality & Literacy)
Summary - Part I • The Shallows presents a historical perspective of media and communication, from papyrus scrolls, to the Guttenberg press, to our modern day internet technology. • Carr walks through his ideas that the internet and media are influencing the way we all think and act. • Technology is not just a tool we use and set aside, it has a profound affect. • In general, our attention spans and ability to focus for long periods of time are changing. • However, our primary means of communication with words is still very present in internet communication.
