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The Digital Divide
- Writings for and Against Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
- By: Mark Bauerlein
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.
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Very impressive!
- By Justin on 10-25-16
- The Digital Divide
- Writings for and Against Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
- By: Mark Bauerlein
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Peter Berkrot
Very impressive!
Reviewed: 10-25-16
This was just what I was after: a book about the many changes that have occurred since the birth of the Internet and how technology is changing our culture! I appreciated the layout of this book: many different authors providing differing aspects and perspectives of the huge topic of the Internet, from the way our brains are being re-wired by always having a screen in front of us, to distraction, to mourning the loss of the beauty of solitude. All the chapters are written in a neutral way, so it's quite an interesting and factual read. I will listen to it again!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the male narrator and only tolerated the female reader, but she only read a few chapters, so that was manageable. Her voice really just put me to sleep.
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