Looking through The Shallows for quotes that relate to the role of digital media in memory and concentration impairment. Will update once I find those quotes.
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Daniel, first of all you blog is really vibrant and fresh. Second of all, I can see what you about this essay being similar to the first one, but I think if you narrow your focus a little more you will be able to come up with something new and edgy. The first paper was more personal and black-and-white. I think this paper is intended to be less personal and more targeted at a specific point. The quote that you chose about the Internet’s effect of our memory and concentration is a good starting point. I think that you can narrow your focus even more, though. Maybe you can explore technology’s effect on our writing or reading or even speech, in particular. Choose an area that interests you and go with it. I’m sure you will come up with something great. The role of digital media in concentration and memory impairment sounds promising. Maybe you can talk about how we are so used to seeing things and hearing things (TV and radio) that we can no longer concentrate on reading words silently. Because our brains have been re-wired to process visual and audio information primarily,we lose our ability to focus on the written word? That might be interesting. I’m not sure if that it what you were going for.