Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
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Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
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#2TikTok will get them through this one.
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#3Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in South America committed by the U.S. and in the next instant what Kylie Jenner wore to the MET gala.
Re: Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
#4Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
I don’t have a source on hand, however I read now because of chat culture people actually read and write a lot more. Back then verbal communication was so much more commonplace.
Sure it’s not novels etc, mostly comments are chit chat, but still words.
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#5Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
Nope, people have been reading shit for decades before the Internet. Go to your local grocery store and look at the magazines on the racks near checkout.
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#6Americans were always voracious readers before television, has nothing to do with women or the Great Depression.
Re: Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
#7Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
Do you have any data to back up your first sentence, or is this your personal opinion? People have been claiming this for decades, but I'm not familiar with the sources on this. It looks like other people here would be interested too. Also, are you defining "reading culture" as leisure reading? Or something else?
Re: Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
#8Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
“The new thing is bad, people should do more of the old thing”. If people couldn’t watch Netflix they certainly wouldn’t be using that time to think about important issues.
The world has not moved away from a reading culture, it never had one.
Re: Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
#9Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
Here is a source: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-dec...
It seems like OP is accurate in their assessment, it's surprising to see how many people read ZERO books in the preceding year.
Re: Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression
#10Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in…
> people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in South America committed by the U.S. and in the next instant what Kylie Jenner wore to the MET gala
Doesn't this completely invalidate your argument? If it's that much easier for folks to read an article about war crimes in South America committed by the US and the next about Kylie Jenner at a gala, how is that different from reading one section of a newspaper and then a different section?