Question

Detoriating reading habits due to tv

Answer 1

Your question is an interesting one that is also very complex. Without a doubt, the "new Media" that individuals are employing is different from literary texts and the difference in genre can make a real difference.  I agree with Mitja that some of the reason lies there...those learners/consumers are employing a media that is different in style and in how the information is relayed...since individuals employ this new media, they are less oriented to the more literary structure of books.  With regard to the style, one is not better than the other, they are different.  I would argue, however, that the new media is less oriented to the deeper and reflective aspects of our human condition and so the content appears (to me, at least) to be more superficial in the new media.  David Lodge in his essays about the evolution of the novel, for example, shows very effectively that this literary device developed quite unique ways to address and share consciousness across individuals that simply cannot be done in other types of media.Another issue is how the decreasing book reading habits are measured....if this is done without careful consideration of how audiobooks and electronic books have impacted the sells of physical books and how they are shared across individuals, then the data might be less accurate.Another issue is that how children are taught to read will impact whether they are good readers and whether -- if they can read -- whether they want to do so.  At least in the United States, there was a huge rush (really created by political and ideological motives during the Bush administration) to employ fragmented and behavioristic approaches to reading pedagogy that produced a generation of poor readers or readers who do not like to read....... these are just three variables to this complex problem.  Hopefully it will be helpful for u