Kathy ReidOne of my greatest pleasures in life is spending some time on Sunday afternoon reading widely, and deeply. A protean sampling - of Mastodon, of ArXiV, of many Signal groups and Discord channels.
The best thing I've read this week is via Carlo Iacono, University Librarian at #CharlesSturtUni - an institute renowned for training Australia's Librarians.
In this piece for Aeon Media Group Ltd, he takes aim at declining attention spans for reading, and argues instead for broader literacies of multi-modal synthesis, fit for a 21st century where data is presented to us in algorithmically-controlled feeds rather than the bound and bordered books of yesteryear.
Moreover, he makes the case for built environments that support those literacies - libraries that recognise and nurture diverse neurologies and multiple ways of "reading".
A decline in literacy is not a moral panic. It is a design problem.
Bravo, Carlo.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
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