Perhaps I am showing my age, I grew up and until my junior year of high school, pre-internet. Google wasn\u2019t even popular until long after I graduated high school. The web seems to attract a lot of blame for the problem of attention and the difficulty with close reading. Distraction has always been a problem, before the internet, it was television, before that it was radio, and before that\u2026 I don\u2019t know, but I’m sure they had a scapegoat ready to go. I admit that reading on the web can be distracting and those distractions are worse now than in the past. However, distractions have always been the problem for close reading and discipline. Because we live in a time where distractions are at an all-time high doesn\u2019t mean should give up close reading and move to something else like hyperreading or surface reading is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n
With powerful digital tools at out disposal, methods other than close reading can be viable. Close reading has become just another tool in the digital humanist’s arsenal. For example, digital tools might provide insights into very large bodies of work, or comparisons of disparate works that might have been impossible when close reading was the primary tool in the humanist’s arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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