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in title, tags, annotations or urlE-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines | Pew Internet Libraries - 0 views
Public Library Resources (Infographic) | Pew Internet Libraries - 0 views
Before the Kindle Fire, Some Misfires - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Nicholas Carr, now best known for “The Shallows,” a book critical of the Internet, said the Kindle would never succeed because, unlike the iPod, there was little content available for it.
Will Gutenberg laugh last? | ROUGH TYPE - 2 views
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the heaviest buyers of e-books are now buying more, not fewer, printed books
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Clay Shirky
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Not once in that half century has anyone successfully invented anything that feels like the digital version of a book. Books online, whether in a Kindle or Google Books, are always (cue McLuhan) the old medium populating the new.
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Canal-U - Internet et la lecture - 0 views
Talking about Generations » Blog Archive » iBrain: is your Brain on Google? - 0 views
Nicholas G. Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Carr originally came to prominence with the 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" and the 2004 book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business School Press). In these widely discussed works, he argued that the strategic importance of information technology in business has diminished as IT has become more commonplace, standardized and cheaper.
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In 2005, Carr published the controversial [4] article "The End of Corporate Computing" in the MIT Sloan Management Review, in which he argued that in the future companies will purchase information technology as a utility service from outside suppliers.
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Through his blog "Rough Type," Carr has been a critic of technological utopianism and in particular the populist claims made for online social production. In his 2005 blog essay titled "The Amorality of Web 2.0," he criticized the quality of volunteer Web 2.0 information projects such as Wikipedia and the blogosphere and argued that they may have a net negative effect on society by displacing more expensive professional alternatives.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Killing Mnemosyne - 1 views
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Isidore, the bishop of Seville, remarked how reading “the sayings” of thinkers in books “render[ed] their escape from memory less easy.”
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Shakespeare has Hamlet call his memory “the book and volume of my brain.”
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Books provide a supplement to memory, but they also, as Eco puts it, “challenge and improve memory; they do not narcotize it.”
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A vos liseuses, à vos tablettes ! - Blog Lecteurs de la Bibliothèque nationale de France - BnF - 0 views
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Le livre numérique sonne-t-il le glas du livre papier ? Ou faut-il plutôt parier, à l’inverse, sur une coexistence durable des deux supports, dans un rapport de complémentarité ? Sans oublier la question de la distribution, où libraires et plateformes en ligne sont à la recherche du modèle économique leur permettant de fonctionner.
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des ressources internet répertoriées par les bibliothécaires
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips - 1 views
Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr | Britannica Blog - 0 views
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I think Carr’s premises are correct: the mechanisms of media affect the nature of thought.
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there are a host of people, from mathematicians to jazz musicians, who practice kinds of deep thought that are perfectly distinguishable from deep reading.
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in either the availability or comprehension of material on scientific or technical subjects
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