{"product_id":"reader-come-home-maryanne-wolf-2018","title":"Reader, come home. Maryanne Wolf. 2018.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s \u003cem\u003eProust and the Squid \u003c\/em\u003eunraveled the tangled story of how the human brain learned to read and how reading has transformed our thoughts and emotions as a species. As society becomes increasingly dependent on digital reading, however. fissures are appearing in our most sophisticated cognitive and emotional processes, from critical analysis and empathy to contemplation. Many lament that their former capacity to be immersed in reading itself has changed. The evidence for these changes and what they portend for the quality of our thought and the intellectual development of our young are the timely subjects of Reader, Come Home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by new research and timeless questions, Wolf engages with the reader in a series of letters that depict her riveting concerns about what is happening to the brain as it adapts to digital mediums. Eschewing any simple, binary pitting of print versus screen reading, she urges us to understand what is nurtured or diminished by each. In the process, she raises these questions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill the next generation, adept in multitasking and quick access to multiple sources of knowledge, fail to fully develop their own \"slower,\" more demanding, deep reading processes, such as critical reasoning and perspective-taking, leaving them vulnerable to false information?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill the seemingly continuous distractions on digital mediums change the nature of attention in our youth, and thus disrupt their ability to concentrate and consolidate new information into memory?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross every age will skimming become the \"new norm\" that short-circuits the time needed for inferential thinking, critical analysis, reflection, and empathy-core elements of a democracy?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on literature, philosophy, and neuroscience, Wolf uses down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate difficult ideas that culminate in her thought-provoking proposal for a biliterate reading brain capable of deep reading across mediums. Reader, Come Home presents an extraordinary clarion call to understand the complex impact of technology on the reading brain and what this could mean for our future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Medium paperback \/ 9780062388773","offer_id":42501113675858,"sku":"Mwolf18","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/F91D1AB9-6379-4D6F-A13C-875BC8E7DBA9.jpg?v=1784179928","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/reader-come-home-maryanne-wolf-2018","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}