“Sound bites, text bites, and mind bites are a reflection of a culture that has forgotten or become too distracted by and too drawn to the next piece of new information to allow itself time to think.” (Phillips, 2014). Does the ‘Twitter generation’ (a generation used to bite sized information, such as the 140 character format used on social networking site Twitter) have an effected attention span? According to a survey in an article in the Guardian “87% felt modern technologies were creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans" (2013).
If we are really using the internet and e-books as a format for ‘fast reading’, in which we speed read to gain information as quick as possible, what does this mean for the publishing industry?
If we are really using the internet and e-books as a format for ‘fast reading’, in which we speed read to gain information as quick as possible, what does this mean for the publishing industry?