The breaker of our reading habits
The Internet embodies a real revolution in our way of thinking. It is irrevocably leading all of us to adopt several new habits. For instance, digital technologies and particularly the Internet, deeply impact our reading habits. Indeed, reading on the web suggests a very different sort of reading to that which we were accustomed to. Indeed, everything is connected nowadays thanks to the hypertext. Contrary to the book, which is a closed object with a beginning and an end, the web isn’t limited and every text, image or video may lead us to other texts, images and videos… I don’t work anymore like I did before having a computer connected to the whole knowledge of the world. In that way, I can say that it broke my working habits. When I do some research for a school project for example, I spend a lot of time collecting pieces of information, whereas in the past, I used to restrain my preliminary researches to a few books. Moreover, needless to say that I rarely move to the library since I can get almost everything I want on my screen.
But we can’t neglect the fact that such an abundance of information may affect our analytical ability. When we read an article on the Internet, we scan the headlines, maybe a paragraph or two to get an idea of what’s new. The articles are short and get to the point. That’s the web’s working principle and according to me it might become our “working principle” if we don’t pay attention. Thereby, Internet is a powerful tool which represents not only an evolution but a real revolution in the way we think and work.
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