Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read - Even Kids - The. When Amazon introduced their e-book reader, the Kindle, Steve Jobs made a strong proclamation regarding the book industry that received a lot of attention: "It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore...
The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore. " As it turns out, he was only half-right. People read, even those in the younger generation, they just prefer to do it online. Although Jobs' statement at the time, was that "Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year," the real figure is closer to 27 percent, based on an August 2007 survey by Ipsos Public Affairs for The Associated Press (cited in The New York Times). However, in general terms, Jobs was speaking towards a growing trend in the print industry. Newspapers A recent comScore Plan Metrix study backs this up, finding that young news readers are less likely to read printed newspapers.
Magazines Books In 2004 the U.S. Yikes. Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? We've been hearing about the decline of reading for so long now that it's amazing a contemporary teenager can even recognise a book, much less read one.
The US (where I am) seems to be cycling through yet another "Johnny can't read" mini-panic, sparked by the release of a National Endowment for the Arts study, called To Read Or Not To Read, which chronicles in exhaustive statistical detail the waning of literary culture and its dire consequences for society. Newspapers dutifully editorialised about America's literacy crisis. It's the sort of "our kids in peril" story - right up there with threats of MySpace predators - that plays well as a three-minute television newsbite or a three-paragraph op-ed piece. But if you actually read the report, what you find are some startling omissions - omissions that ultimately lead to a heavily distorted view of the Google generation and its prospects. You need to read it The NEA makes a convincing case that both kids and adults are reading fewer books. Pour en finir avec les natifs versus les immigrants digitaux (pa.
Marc Prensky a beaucoup fait pour favoriser l'introduction des nouvelles technologies à l'école ou faciliter son acceptation dans la population, avec une belle formule-choc : les jeunes sont natifs du numérique, les vieux sont des immigrants.
Mais il est temps maintenant de neutraliser ce mythe du natif versus immigrant qui a fait plus de tort qu'autre chose. Comme prétexte pour vous en parler je prends mon journal (papier) préféré qui nous propose une attaque frontale contre la blogosphère, ce qui nous change des petites flèches de côté qui ont eu cours dans la dernière année. Essayons d'y voir clair le temps d'identifier une source d'incompréhension sur la blogosphère et proposons ensuite une nouvelle métaphore plus pratique pour débloquer la situation... Je vous laisse le temps de le lire (843 mots), le croissant à la main (joignons l'utile à l'agréable), et on se retrouve au paragraphe suivant.
Rioux serait donc un "dinosaure", voué à l'extinction s'il ne s'adapte pas. Vie privée : le point de vue des "petits cons" - LeMon.