The idea that how a person gathers information will affect how they think is a valid theory. This article was based on the traits that seem to change in a person's reading style and writing style when they use computers rather than books. This is surprising, but I don't believe that the medium people use to read with changes a person's reading style. It is more of the fact that people want to finish reading quickly and make a habit of doing so by skimming the information they read on the web. I believe this because most of my reading is done online, but for pleasure rather than for researching using articles. That may be pleasurable for some, but most people do not read information from historical articles for fun, they do so for work, school, or to find proof of an idea.
"As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought." This may be true in the aspect of if the media is visual, auditory or physical, but not in whether it is technological or not. I only am taking this stance because I read novels easily, and yet most of my time is spent reading online. How a person chooses to read, and whether their method of learning is one of the previous aspects, is what truly shapes a person's brain.
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