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1/ The following 15 threads will be for my English 102 class taken through Coastal Carolina University, located in Conway, SC. Engl102 focuses on composition & critical Reading, & for this week will we be criticizing Reading War and Peace on my iPhone, by Clive Thompson through a
a Twitter Feed. My professor is Dr. Alan Reid @alanjreidphd and you can read about him at his personal website https://alanjreidphd.wixsite.com/reid . 
2/ Clive Thompson is a Canadian journalist, blogger, and science technology writer. Clive Thompson writes about digital technologies & their
2/ Clive Thompson is a Canadian journalist, blogger, and science technology writer. Clive Thompson writes about digital technologies & their
social and cultural impact to the community. Thompsonās work is similar to Nicholas Carr, another author who will be reading about within this course. 
Clive Thompson believes that the internet is a tool that we can use to talk, argue, insult, and compliment others with to our
Clive Thompson believes that the internet is a tool that we can use to talk, argue, insult, and compliment others with to our
advantage. A popular piece by Clive Thompson is Reading War and Peace on my iPhone.
3/ Reading War and Peace on my iPhone is about how Clive Thompson read War and Peace on his iPhone instead of reading the hard paperback copy. Throughout the reading, Thompson struggles with the idea of reading a book from a digital format and how reading the ātraditionalā way is
better. One day he came to the conclusion about how heās going to take his chances and read from his iPhone to see what all of the hype was about. 
4/ Clive Thompson decided to read the longest novel that he knows, War and Peace, on his iPhone.
4/ Clive Thompson decided to read the longest novel that he knows, War and Peace, on his iPhone.
Thompson actually enjoyed reading from his iPhone, whenever earlier in his reading he was going against the idea, because he was able to zoom in on the words, keep track of his progress and see how long it would take him to finish the reading, has the option of the reading to be
read to him, and heās able to have a copy of the book downloaded on his phone instead of carrying the large hardback with him wherever he decides to go.
5/ When just looking at the title of this piece, you can easily assume that Clive Thompson will be discussing the time of how he read War and Peace on his iPhone. For me personally, I donāt like to read, but if I had to choose between reading off of my phone or either from the
hard back book, I would choose the book. 6/ I would choose to read from the book because with me reading from my phone I can easily get distracted between different notifications, or I would just give up on reading and start playing a game on my phone.
At the beginning of Reading War and Peace on my iPhone, Clive Thompson discusses the cons of reading from a digital platform.
7/ Clive Thompson believed that social media and technology is taking over, and itās not the best way of learning; because the texts are smaller and youāre less likely to remember what you just read versus reading from the paper book. When you read from paper books you are able
to remember the texts more, as well as calm you down. He supported his claim by providing evidence from Naomi Baron, a linguist and professor of linguistics at the Department of World Languages and Cultures, book Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. 
8/ āAnd then, of course, there are the distractions. With Snapchat and Facebook pecking at you like ravenous ducks, one could scarcely imagine a tool more exquisitely tuned to destroy deep attention than a modern phone. Baron found that 85% of young people reported multitasking
while reading on a digital device, while only 26% did so with a paper book. āI donāt absorb as much,ā complained one. āReading [on] paper is active ā Iām engaged and thinking, reacting, marking up the page,ā said another. āReading the screen feels passive to me.ā
This is why print books arenāt dying off. Studies by the Pew Research Center suggest that book readers read paper much more often than digital, and these days, the number of independent bookstores is actually growing.ā -Naomi Baron
9/ A study shows from Pew Research Center about how print books are actually more popular than e-books. You can click this link to read more about this study. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/
10/Clive Thompson admits that he has concerns for the future about what technologies are to come in store, but heās generally a giddy optimist about digital technologies. He thinks that technology has given us delightful new ways to make sense of the world and talk to each other
but heās also an old-school fan of book reading. He double crosses himself about his beliefs, and takes in consideration about why others tend to enjoy electronic readings.
11/He structures his essay into broken parts between his own personal words, his sources, & the words from War and Peace itself.The paragraphs are separated between asterisk marks, underline words, italicized & bold words, & a change of font can also be found in the paragraphs.
12/ I think that Clive Thompson structures his reading this way so that youāre easily able to distinguish the different writings, as well as look in detail from his supported sources. The way in which this text is organized makes me think that Iām reading a version of War and
Peace for myself and then a version of what Clive Thompson thought of the peace. 13/ The hyperlinks found in Clive Thompsonās article add a great deal of support and follow up research to his claims. I think Clive Thompson has done a wonderful job on taking his time to do his
research in order to make his readings very effective for his viewers.
14/ What seems to be Clive Thompsonās stance on this issue of reading is that even if your views are very opinionated, you must remain humble and open-minded to others opinions and views because you
14/ What seems to be Clive Thompsonās stance on this issue of reading is that even if your views are very opinionated, you must remain humble and open-minded to others opinions and views because you
might end up liking the other personās views better than your own. Thompson disliked the idea of reading from a tiny screen but then he ended up loving it, b/c he was able to remain in control of his readings.15/ What you can take away from this thread is being able to understand
the new and advanced technologies erupting. You can also acknowledge that when it comes to your reading, itās better to read from a hard copy book, but itās honestly best for you to read in whatever way you feel the most comfortable.
