In The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Dont Trust Anyone Under 30) Prof. Mark Bauerlein of Emory University argues that as younger Americans spend more time watching YouTube and chatting on

The Dumbest Generation : How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

Introduction

The advances in the field of technology and communication have brought immense changes in the lives of human beings . The development of faster and efficient means of communication have made it possible for an individual residing in one corner of the world to contact a person living in another corner of the world within minutes . But it is the same technology which is leading to lower intellectual levels in the people The younger generation is more

affected by the digital age , as they are the ones who are spending their majority of time on the net . The attraction of the post print media among the youth has resulted in the neglect of print-based texts . But `Reading ' and `literature ' in the post-print media make us less intellectually capable than reading print-based texts , owing to the adverse effects of the print-media on the reading habits and attentiveness of the person

Reading Habit

The major impact of the post-print media is noticed in the reading habits of the person utilizing them . As young people are spending more time on the net , their reading habits are undergoing immense changes While searching for information on the web pages or reading emails people seemed to follow a reading pattern which differs from the reading pattern being developed in the schools . One such research , which pointed towards this development among the users of internet , was carried out by Jakob Nielsen . When Jakob...