Proust Maryanne Wolf

Another flaw of the “bursts of inconsequential information” is the direct toll data-bites take on a college student’s ability to read longer works of writing. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and psychologist at Tufts University, claims, “We are not what we read. We are how we read.” She continues to be concerned with a reading style, such as the style of reading Twitter, that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else. She believes this type of reading weakens our capacity for deep reading. She also explains that reading is not instinctive, as speech is, for humans. She claims as people read, they shape the neural circuits in their brains and train themselves how to focus on pieces