Further Reading

For further information on interactive websites, online learning, and the reading of print sources, check out some of the helpful resources listed below!


“An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube.” Michael Wesch. Presentation at the Library of Congress, uploaded to Youtube.com. July 2008. Online Video. 


Bozarth, Jane. “Nuts and Bolts: Brain Bandwidth – Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design.” Learning Solutions Magazine, August 3rd, 2010. Web


Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains.” The Atlantic. (July-August 2008) Print. 

Carr, Nicholas G. The shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print.

DeStefano, D., and J.A. LeFevre. “Cognitive load in hypertext reading: A review.” Computers in  Human Behaviour 23.3 (2007): 1616-1641. Web.

“Family of Readers.” Ed. Shayla Harris and Motoko Rich. The New York Times. July 2008. Online Video. 

Gopnik, Adam. 2011. “A Critic at Large: The Information: How the Internet gets inside us.” The New Yorker, February 14, 2011. 

Hayles, Katherine N. Electronic literature: new horizons for the literary. New York: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Print. 


Jackson, Linda A., Alexander von Eye, Frank A. Biocca, Gretchen Barbatsis, Yong Zhao and Hiram E. Fitzgerald. “Does Home Internet Use Influence the Academic Performance of Low-Income Children?” Developmental Psychology 42.3 (2006): 429-435. Web.

Kiili, Kristian and Harri Ketamo. “Identifying Hypermedia Browsing Strategies.” E-training Practices for Professional Organizations. Ed. Paul Nicholson, J. Barrie Thompson, Mikko Ruohonen, and Jari Multisilta. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. 3-10. E-book.     

Lawless, Kimberly A., Robert Mills, and Scot W. Brown. “Children’s hypertext navigation strategies.” Journal of Research on Technology in Education 34.3 (2002): 274 – 284. Web.

Logan, Robert K. “Making sense of the visual - Is Google the seventh language?” Semiotica. 157 (2005): 345-351. Print. 

Logan, Robert K. The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 2000. Print. 

Mimirinis, Mike, and Madhumita Bhattacharya. “Design of Virtual Learning Enviroments for Deep Learning.” Journal of Interactive Learning Research.18.1 (2007): 55-64. Print.  

National Endowment for the Arts. To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence. Washington: Office of Research and Analysis, 2007. Web.

Neilsen, Jakob. “F-Shaped Pattern for Reading Web Content.” Alertbox, April 17th, 2006. Web.  Accessed from http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

Purves, Alan C. The Web of Text and the Web of God: An Essay on the Third Information Transformation. New York: Guilford Publications, 1998. Print. 

Rich, Motoko. “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” The New York Times 27 July 2008: A1. Web. 

Shirky, Clay. “Tapping the cognitive surplus: the sudden bounty of accessible creativity, insight, and knowledge is a public treasure, says a network guru.” The Futurist. 44.6 (2010): 21. Print. 

Small, Gary W. iBrain: surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind. New York: Harper, 2009. Print. 

Uso-Juan, Esther and Noelia Ruiz-Madrid. “Reading Printed versus Online Text: A Study of EFL Learners’ Strategic Reading Behaviour.” International Journal of English Studies 9.2 (2009): 59-79. Web. 

Wolf, Maryanne. Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain. New York: Harper, 2007. Print.   


Wolk, Steven. “The Benefits of Exploratory Time.” Educational Leadership. 59.2 (2001): 56-59. Print.