In the text, the author discusses how teenagers are exposed to fewer longform texts because of digital media. Do you use digital
media to read books or news articles? What do you mainly use your digital devices for? Do you think the author's discussion of teenagers' reading habits reflects your own personal experiences reading?
<em>I use digital media to read books due to its simplicity and ease of use. Unlike the print media form that might be bulky, with the digital media, hundreds of books can be stored in it thereby making it more environmentally friendly (due to non-printing of those books out using papers).</em>
I think the author's discussion of teenagers'reading habit reflect his own personal experiences in reading due to various references which he made pointing towards that.
I try to limit the digital time (time spend in front of a screen) as much as possible so I never read books and scarcely - when necessary - an article once in a while in the digital form.
I use them for what they were invented for: to make things easier; I refrain from using them in a 'social' way because I prefer real social life instead of the virtual one.
So I guess my personal experiences differ greatly from the average teenager´s reading habits.
P.S. The more time people spend in their virtual world the less time they have in the real world, that also includes longform texts, or books for that matter.
"On Dumpster Diving" is about Lara Eighner who describes his experiences on the street and the art of Dumpster diving. He also goes over how to pick good food V.S. rotten food. Eighner intentionally presents himself as educated not only to disprove any assumptions the reader may have about him based on his socioeconomic status, but also to relate to the target audience. This is effective for the author's argument because by doing this he was able to reach a wider audience such as being published in the Threepenny Review.
