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The Importance Of Electronic Media In Reading

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The electronic media has created a loss of intellectual capacity as a result literacy levels in reading is declining at all age and educational levels.
According to Dr. Thompson (2015), “Reading requires active attention and engagement… reading is an interaction between the text, author and you… but because we have shifted from reading to an electronic media society, reading has change for many of us.”
This obsession with the contemporary electronic media is beginning to become a concern. Clearly this is not an argument to paused technology or to go back to the “Stone Age”, because obviously there are numerous benefits and positive impact on the economy made through technology. However, this plea is for us to look into what is it we are giving up with the excessive amount of time we are spending on the computer/internet, ipod, tablet, instagram, facebook, twitter, cellular phone and television. What is the opportunity cost for this?
The answer to that question is “Literacy” and this was expressed by Dr. Thompson (2015) in several explanations such as; “Electronically connected enable us not to read so much…but the decline in reading parallels a retreat from participation in civic and cultural life.”
Let’s focus on two particular points on how an electronic media society is contributing to the declining of literary reading.
Firstly, the internet is a contributing factor for jeopardizing our originality and higher order thinking. A famous author Gilbert Highet (1950) once

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