Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Are we losing our ability to read deeply? Do you wonder what is happening to your reading brain as it adapts to digital mediums? Maryanne Wolf explores these questions and many more in her text, "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World".

"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: Will 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?; Will the seemingly continuous distractions on digital mediums change…