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Another recent study, this one on academic research, provides real-world evidence of the way the tools we use to sift information online influence our mental habits and frame our thinking. James Evans...

As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And w...

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The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to vastly overvalue what happens to us right now, as Union College psychologist Christopher Chabr...

When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something v...

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an ecosystem of interruption technologies, as the blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow terms it.23