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People No Longer Have Attention Span To Read Full Articles - 0 views

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  • Sarah Hannasch on 25 Feb 11
     
    An article about our societies diminishing attention span
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Social Websites Harm Children's Brains - 0 views

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shared by Diana Merritt on 05 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Diana Merritt on 05 Apr 11
     
    Going along with the Shallow's argument about our changing ability to focus and shortening attention spans, this article addresses that, as well as communication problems.
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How Social Media has Changed the Reading Experience - 0 views

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shared by Zach Thompson on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Zach Thompson on 21 Apr 11
     
    Amazon introduces the Kindle that lets you share ratings of and highlighted passages from books you've read with your friends through social media networks, and introduces "Kindle Singles" -- "short stories written by well known authors and published electronically by Amazon that come at a cheaper price than full-length books," for our shorter attention spans.
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Monkeying around with the gorillas in our midst: familiarity with an inattentional-blin... - 1 views

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shared by Diana Merritt on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Diana Merritt on 10 Mar 11
     
    An article about the Invisible Gorilla experiment. I think this is interesting not only because of the content, but of how widespread the access to this experiment has been--the youtube video has something like 3,095,286 hits.
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In Defense of Distraction - 0 views

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  • Stellena Nelson on 16 Apr 11
     
    The full text of an article cited by Nicholas Carr in The Shallows.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms and Internet addiction - YOO - 2004 - Psychiat... - 0 views

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  • Stellena Nelson on 02 May 11
     
    A study on the relationship between ADHD and internet addiction
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