The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Futur...
ISBN: 9781585427123 | 1585427128
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Tarcher
Pub. Date: 5/14/2009
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This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.'If you're the parent of someone under 20 and read only one non-fiction book this fall, make it this one. Bauerlein's simple but jarring thesis is that technology and the digital culture it has created are not broadening the horizon of the younger generation; they are narrowing it to a self-absorbed social universe ... MORE
| Preface to the Paperback Edition | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Knowledge Deficits | p. 11 |
| The New Bibliophobes | p. 39 |
| Screen Time | p. 71 |
| Online Learning and Non-Learning | p. 113 |
| The Betrayal of the Mentors | p. 163 |
| No More Culture Warriors | p. 205 |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 245 |
| Table of Contents... MORE |
Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has worked as a director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw studies about culture and American life, including the much discussed Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, Reason magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many other publications and scholarly periodicals. A frequent lecturer, he has been called one of the Independent Women-'s Forum-'s -ôfavorite intellectuals,-ö and has been praised by columnist George Will as -ôdazzling.-ö
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