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If exposure to televison may affect the way we read then the web and hyperlinking certainly should too. So I have another question, is the web going to effect our reading books in the sequence they were written? Regards, Rick Parker > Ken Armstrong wrote: > > > The real question here, one that regularly recurs with a bang on the > > McLuhan discussion list, is whether the TV/point 'n' click generation > > is (or even can be) literate or not, i.e. is literacy in decline? To > > be honest (for emphasis, not contrast :), I'm really not sure. I am > > inclined to think that what my 12 year old daughter does when she > > reads a book, after a zillion hours in front of the tube, is different > > from what I do (she stays awake, for one thing). > > But I'm not sure; she still has to visually process the marks on the > > page and imagine the words that she reads. In sequence. Marcia Karp wrote: > > Dear Ken, > Your last two words above interest me. Do you think readers (I'm > interested in literate ones who read because they want to) necessarily > read the poems in poetry books in order? What, in addition to numbered > or some sort of demarcated sequences, brings the reader through the book > poem after poem, if anything does? I don't mean to put you on the > spot. Just that your words sparked my interest, and perhaps with your > teaching experience, you can help. All others invited, too.